crumbling

Example Sentences

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Sure, the buildings were crumbling, but the art deco architecture was historic.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

For days, Soviet authorities hid the catastrophe from the world -- a disaster that further weakened the already crumbling USSR, which collapsed in 1991.

From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026

That was the old Wembley, though, which was crumbling by then.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Somewhere in the bowels of my music collection hides 1985’s George Clinton-produced “Freaky Styley” and 1987’s “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” on crumbling cassettes.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

She leaned over the edge, the dirt crumbling, trying to see the griffin in the dusk.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell