- present participle of crumble.
crumbling
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, in Cuba, Chinese solar panels are a bright spot for a power grid plagued by fuel shortages, crumbling infrastructure and near-daily blackouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Kate Brown, a Sunset Square resident for 21 years, wanted to renovate the low wall outside her house in 2021, as well as paint the exterior and repair the crumbling stairs entering the property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Big picture: Worries about a crumbling labor market at the end of last year have mostly gone away.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Jennings argues there are crumbling shopping centres all over the country, hit by online shopping, that could do the job.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Abbouds began looking for a house near Jerusalem and everything was either too big, too expensive, too little, too crumbling, too noisy, or too strange.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
