crumbled

Estee Lauder has not crumbled to dust because the perfect brown face of Joan Smalls represents it.

Schools closed, the deficit ballooned, highways crumbled, jobs disappeared—I imagine ruby slippers were hocked.

In April 1991, just before the U.S.S.R. crumbled, the KGB suddenly abandoned its post at Viru.

The political structures established by the Ottoman Turks in the 1500s, especially in Iraq and Syria, have crumbled.

But even that loyalty has crumbled as Murdoch is seen by some to have abandoned ship.

When first seen it is said to have had a pasty consistency, but on exposure to the air it dried and crumbled into powder.

But, underfoot, beyond question, lay nothing but the broken heaps of stones that betokened a building long since crumbled to dust.

The body of his grandfather too seemed entire, but crumbled into dust at the first touch.

Everything valuable was removed, and soon nothing remained but the bare walls, which in a few years crumbled into ruins.

The snow was half melted, and the rock crumbled beneath the feet; so the uncle laid himself down at full length and crept along.