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Example Sentences
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The USA's Malinin finished eighth after a horrendous free skate in which he visibly crumbled under the pressure.
From BBC
While Essayli has boasted of charging more than 100 defendants with assaulting federal officers or impeding immigration agents, those cases are crumbling in court.
From Los Angeles Times
Britain's 200-year-old canal network was once the backbone of the country's economic transformation during the Industrial Revolution, but is now crumbling, experts say.
From Barron's
As the game went on, his long bet on New England crumbled.
In 2024 he’d won 14 games in Minnesota, crumbled over the final two games of the season, and watched as the Vikings let him walk straight out the door.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
