Sentence example with the word 'crumble'

crumble

abate, canker, crack up, disjoin, faint, gangrene, hit the skids, necrose, rankle, split, waste away

Definition v. fall apart

Last update: February 8, 2016


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The strawberry crumble is delicious.   [verb]

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The houses crumbled due to earthquake .   [verb]

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Over the past five months they have watched their livelihoods crumble away with the death of every cow, every sheep.   [verb]

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Where he commanded victory followed, and if the Christians should succeed in destroying the image of Serapis the joints of the world would crack and the earth would crumble away.   [verb]

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They had been warned to pray and repent of their sins, for at the moment when the holiest sanctuary on earth should fall the whole world would crumble into nothingness.   [verb]

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She crumbled at once into a thousand pieces, like the wax statue.   [verb]

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Its château walls have crumbled, but its subterranean galleries, cut three stories down into the rock itself, are much as they always were.   [verb]

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"On opening it, I drew out a roll folded in a bladder, which, being frozen, broke and crumbled."   [verb]

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Only a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse's hind hoofs.   [verb]

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But now he felt that the universe had crumbled before his eyes and only meaningless ruins remained, and this not by any fault of his own.   [verb]

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All the axioms which had served him as points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence of this man.   [verb]

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