Example sentences for: crumbling

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

  • The long, curvaceous, and crumbling Malecón (breakwater), a six-lane highway alongside the city’s north shore, links the districts of Central Havana and Vedado.

  • This is partly because my local pride has been injured, but also because I think that New York--with its size, diversity, abundant businesses, crumbling schools, huge infrastructure, and so on--has local needs that are just as (if not more) particular as any other district in the country.

  • John F. Kennedy's election to the White House and the success of celebrities like Grace Kelly proved that the WASP establishment, which long impeded access to Irish-Americans, was crumbling.

  • The dispatcher further confused the substance of the 911 call by telling NYPD officers at the WTC complex that "the 106th floor is crumbling" at 9:52, 15 minutes after the 911 call was placed.

  • It is possible to walk the stairs of the restored section for about 2 km (11⁄2 miles) before reaching the crumbling remains of the original wall on either end.


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