Example sentences for: crumble

How can you use “crumble” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At some point some nasty little kid at school is going to mock them for not knowing what Pokémon is and we'll have to crumble and introduce them to cartoons and action-figure ads and "School House Rock" and all the rest.

  • The Times of London said that "shoddy construction work, cheap building materials and a reckless disregard for safety," almost certainly caused so many buildings to crumble.

  • In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.

  • In the pages of The Rules , men are a barely individualized collection of amiable dolts, but the Rules Girl is a particular social type--and it isn't the choosy free spirit lectured in such anti-feminist self-help books as Smart Women, Foolish Choices . The woman depicted as in need of the Rules is a voracious doormat, the sort of woman who sends men Hallmark greeting cards or long letters after a single date, who rummages in men's drawers and pockets, suggests couples therapy when brief relationships start to crumble, throws away a new boyfriend's old clothes, cleans (and redecorates) his apartment without asking, and refuses to see the most obvious signs of disengagement.

  • The Gupta empire began to crumble in the fifth century, with the onslaught of the so-called White Huns.


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