Crumbling

Examples

• All broken, and worm-eaten, and crumbling to dust at the edges. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In the Sahara Desert much crumbling of the rock into sand has been caused by the intense heat of the day followed by the sharp frost of night. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• That was one regiment which had been eliminated from Lee's force by this crumbling process. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Rivers flowed back towards their sources; peaks and lofty mountains where countless trees had grown for ages rolled crumbling to the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• His hopes and his ambitions were all crumbling about him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• On these stones that are crumbling away, the guide said, the Saviour sat and rested before taking up the cross. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Lee's army was rapidly crumbling. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Stones, gravel and sticks must be removed, otherwise the contraction of the clay and expansion of the stones on burning, produce a weak and crumbling structure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Splitting and crumbling of rock caused by alternating heat and cold. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is in Paris now, one may say, but a crumbling old cross in one portion of it reminds one that it was not always so. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It must be hard enough to bear transportation, and to carry the furnace burden without crumbling to pieces. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• An incident recorded of that heavy time will give one a very good idea of the distress that prevailed within these crumbling walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Editor: Sharon