caving in
Example Sentences
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The roof can be caving in or they can be well-loved properties with absentee owners.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
"The whole time all we could hear was the sound of our ceilings and our roofs caving in behind us."
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2025
“The roof is caving in, the screen is being pulled out and you only have a certain number of times where things can fall apart because they can’t put it back together,” Perea says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024
The ceiling was caving in, the furniture she had built was damaged, and the speaker system she had installed was shot.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2024
I kept seeing that motherhouse up in the mountains, its roof caving in, its walls crumbling like a foolish house built on sand.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
