Example sentences for: crumble

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

  • Soaring Middle East oil prices seemed to do the same thing for Calgary in the 1970s, but the shining downtown skyscrapers that shot up then do not look as if they are about to crumble.

  • As the Roman empire began to crumble, however, Huns and Vandals swarmed over the river, and during the early fifth century Aquincum fell to the tribes of Attila.

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

  • The latest Northern Ireland peace agreement will crumble, predicts the magazine, unless Unionists give Sinn Fein more time to cleanse itself of terrorist associations, both real and symbolic.

  • The NYT hints that it was merely a well-rehearsed set-piece that will crumble when Bush debuts it live at the upcoming debates with his Republican opponents.


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