crumbling
Example Sentences
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Protesters are demanding the government boost spending on the education system by fixing crumbling infrastructure, reducing class sizes and hiring new teachers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The 27,000 residents that remain in Mene Grande contend with chronic blackouts and crumbling infrastructure, with some of the wells better fit for a museum than a working oil field.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
A dangerously nondurable kind of concrete was used for a recently built skyscraper that is already crumbling from the inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
But that highly-profitable model is currently crumbling as courts are increasingly treating college athletic conferences as cartels engaged in anti-competitive price-fixing.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
“So you traded an Italian villa and wine for a crumbling Cotswold and an illegal lab pet. You’re not very good at trades, are you, Lily?”
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
