Crumbling Sentence Examples

There was not a single chamber in the old fabric that was not crumbling and tottering.

Her heart was breaking again or maybe, her hope crumbling.

In fact, it looked a bit like a crumbling, tumbledown barn.

The crumbling ruins of the castle remain as impressive as ever.

One evening after dark a young man prowled among these crumbling red mansions, ringing their bells.

Powers created by worldliness and sin are crumbling, as they well may; "the city of God remaineth!"

What emerges is a tale of misspent fortunes and murderous revenge among the crumbling ruins of an old film set.

A cannon ball struck the very end of the earth work by which he was standing, crumbling down the earth; a black ball flashed before his eyes and at the same instant plumped into something.

It had, it is true, dealt a blow to Calvinism just when, owing to the reforms of the council of Trent, the religious ground had been crumbling beneath it.

Terra Cotta is great to use on kitchen walls because it reminds one of the old crumbling clay walls found on ancient Tuscan buildings.

They could've both gone somewhere else entirely, wherever they wanted to go, without the underworld crumbling or the pain Gabriel was in.

By whichever way treated, the tobaccoleaf after curing is brittle and cannot be handled without crumbling to powder.

By evening the magnitude of the initial enemy success was clear, though it was not yet clear to what extent the whole Italian left wing was crumbling.

The crumbling pastry, sharp lemon and sweet quince coulis were a delight, and we cooed with appreciation.

Unlike Labor, we don't have to shore up a crumbling edifice.

The crumbling remains of Corfe Castle and the deserted cottages of Tyneham have an eerie enchantment for children.

The imposing baroque facade of no 35 dates from 1842 and is made from Bath stone which is crumbling because of pollution.

We desperately need to update Britain's crumbling transport infrastructure.

The patchwork of scattered cornfields interspersed with the region's crumbling, gray marl ' badlands ' forms a splendid wildlife habitat.

Crumbling Roman ruins, glittering Byzantine palaces and mighty Ottoman mosques pepper the landscape and serve as glorious reminders of Turkey's colorful history.

The masonry could clearly be seen in places behind the brown crumbling plaster on the walls.

The fabric of the Islamic polity itself seemed to be crumbling.

The crumbling of some of the exterior stonework at St Mary's Church has caused concern for a long time.

It twists and turns along mountains, past crumbling watchtowers and through villages and farms, alive with activity.

A strong sense of history pervades the region, with crumbling forts and tales of famous wayfarers.

Notwithstanding the protection afforded by sand-dunes and earthen embankments backed by stones and timber, the Frisian Islands are slowly but surely crumbling away under the persistent attacks of storm and flood, and the old Frisian proverb "de nich will diken mut wiken" (" who will not build dikes must go away") still holds good.

The modifications required to strengthen the crumbling walls to support the roof and to facilitate the excavation of loculi, involved so much labour that, as a rule, after a few attempts, the idea of utilizing an old quarry for burial purposes was abandoned.

But though it is in reality an elevated plateau, with a general altitude of 4600 down to 2675 ft., it is nevertheless a depression when compared with the girdle of mountains which surround it on every side except the east, and even on that side it is shut in by the crumbling remains of a once mighty mountain system, the Pe-shan (see Gobi).

Early in the morning I worked barefooted, dabbling like a plastic artist in the dewy and crumbling sand, but later in the day the sun blistered my feet.

The crumbling of some of the exterior stonework at St Mary 's Church has caused concern for a long time.

With Alexander as the top boy name and Marie the top girl name for the Germans, we can assume the borders are crumbling into the rest of Europe.

The crumbling was minimal and I cleaned up my eyes by applying a little pressed powder over the fallen makeup.The shadows were true to the color you see but as mentioned previously, the color does not stick around long.

Ranging from yellowing and dullness to thickening and crumbling, the signs of toenail fungus are not pretty and can be quite uncomfortable, too.

He found himself looking down on the crumbling remains of the castle from more than 6 feet.

The scrapbooks carefully compiled to tell their fantastic story are crumbling.

Whether you're helping out with someone else's wedding or slicing the cake for your own, it's worthwhile to learn more about how to handle the process successfully and prevent the cake from crumbling on the platter.

My financial life was a complete mess and crumbling all around me.

Although Kate has addressed the ongoing allegations of her marriage with Jon crumbling, she does so in depth for People magazine.

Bullock had everything she wanted, then suddenly her life was crumbling.

But best of all, you won't have to worry about crumbling plaster, unsightly water stains that keep leaking through fresh paint or cracks across your ceiling.

Recurrence and fungal advancement may cause increased damage to the nail bed, including yellowing, thickening, and crumbling of the nail, and the possibility of a painful infection.

The ground is then left unworked and open to the crumbling influence of frost till towards the end of winter, when it is stirred with the cultivator followed by the harrows, or in some cases ploughed with a shallow furrow.

Like the Astin-tagh it stretches towards the E.N.E., and, like it, appears to be built up of granite and schists, but its crest is greatly denuded, so that it is a mere crumbling skeleton protruding above the deep mantle of disintegrated material which masks its flanks.

The In the course of the next three years her empire warS seemed to be crumbling away everywhere.

The kittens were a catalyst to crumbling the walls of tension that had been built between them.

She glanced towards the brush and shrubs of an unkempt lot, where a crumbling foundation of an old beach house remained.

Nose wrinkling from the scent of rotting seaweed, she glanced towards the crumbling foundation of the beach house.

These are regions steeped in history, whose every village seemingly hides an architectural treasure, from Romanesque chapels to crumbling castles.

If your condition has advanced and has begun to cause nail yellowing or a crumbling nail bed, you may wish to seek professional treatment rather than seek a natural cure.

Rhymer's Tower was crumbling to pieces, and its stones were being used in the erection of dykes, cottages and houses, when the Edinburgh Border Counties Association acquired the relic and surrounding lands in 1895, and took steps to prevent further spoliation and decay.

In short, Hamilton took from recent years the lesson of the evils of lax government; whereas Jefferson clung to the other lesson, which crumbling colonial governments had illustrated, that governments derived their strength (and the Declaration had proclaimed that they derived their just rights) from the will of the governed.

As the operation proceeded, it was found that the voltage had to be raised until it became prohibitive, while the anodes rapidly became honeycombed through and, crumbling away, filled up the space at the bottom of the vat.

His right hand held on to a crumbling stone cliff, his left stuck out in mid-air.

He approached the duchy with a business plan and was eventually rewarded with a crumbling granite barn and the money to renovate it.

While you are cleaning your grout, inspect it for cracks or crumbling areas.

What peace she'd found in the familiar orchard fled as she looked at the charred, crumbling ruins of the once great city that lay beyond the wall.

He felt that everything was now at an end, all was in confusion and crumbling to pieces, that nobody was right or wrong, the future held nothing, and there was no escape from this position.

Most destructive, also, are the termites or white ants, whose ravages are to be seen in the crumbling woodwork and furniture of all habitations in the hot zones.