Sentence examples for upon crumbling from inspiring English sources

Our software evolves by layering new systems on old, and that means we have constructed entire cities upon crumbling swamps.

Some environmentalists are hopeful that the new administration will stop short of wholesale repeal and can instead focus Trump's attention upon crumbling infrastructure he has promised to fix.

Not sure if the vision is imaginary or real, she walks and walks until she comes upon a crumbling house.

Dave Sheinin writes: "This World Series had defied predictions, upended convention and left nothing that could be counted upon — aces crumbling, relievers burned to a crisp, no lead safe.

Given that we can't even maintain our existing infrastructure, I wonder: How does our real-estate-obsessed city plan to provide services for the new office towers and luxury condos being built upon our crumbling foundations?

The world is more dangerous than they imagined; the alliances and institutions they have long relied upon may be crumbling.

As you head south, the pastel Italian palaces and Constructivist buildings of the city center give way to fast-food restaurants, discount stores and row upon row of crumbling slums from the Khrushchev era.

The reefs, built by hundreds of generations of oysters growing and dying and crumbling upon one another's backs, are at least 6,000 years old, predating the Great Pyramids.

GARY, Ind .— With block upon block of crumbling houses, abandoned stores, and churches and theaters left to rot like ancient ruins, this old industrial city can easily seem like a ghost town of vanquished dreams.

Adam Driver's menacing antagonist Kylo Ren also gets a lot of screen time, looking upon Darth Vader's crumbling mask and promising to "finish what you started".

'She was someone who had the really dangerous world of fame open to her at a young, impressionable age and it all came crumbling down upon her,' McGee said.