CRUMBLE in a Sentence
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53 example sentences for CRUMBLE, such as:
1. A whole European system crumbled away.
2. The old houses crumble and new ones rise.
3. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble.
4. The framework crumbled away for a certain length.
5. Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.
2. The old houses crumble and new ones rise.
3. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble.
4. The framework crumbled away for a certain length.
5. Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.
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Meanings and Examples of CRUMBLE
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crumble
v. fall apart
v. fall into decay or ruin
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1 Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her heart.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
2 All that Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season sufficed to make a world crumble.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
3 The old houses crumble and new ones rise.
4 This monstrous mass must be made to crumble.
5 "Well, we crumble it up," answered Vassily, taking up some seed and rolling the earth in his palms.
6 Well, mind you crumble up the clods," said Levin, going towards his horse, "and keep an eye on Mishka.
7 There was disappointment burning in her that she could not quite analyze, the disappointment of a child seeing illusions crumble.
8 She thought wildly: Let the whole Confederacy crumble in the dust.
9 The stars began to crumble and a cloud of fine stardust fell through space.
10 It was like a miracle; but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumble into dust and passed from our sight.
11 Their prosperity is crumbled up behind the scenes, into nice little promotions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
12 It was Napoleon, the immense somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to advance.
13 A whole European system crumbled away.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
14 The soil had given away, the pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great difficulty in getting him out again.
15 The framework crumbled away for a certain length.
Example Sentence:
1 The earthquake made the wall sink and start to crumble.
2 Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.
3 Its sister mission in Tumacacori was built of adobe and has crumbled under the weight of the years.
4 Under the pressure, the flint crumbled into fragments.
5 I cannot recall any other instance in modern times in which a huge and mighty state crumbled to dust.
6 The country's infrastructure is crumbling because of inadequate investment.
7 This cheese has a crumbly texture with a strong flavour.