Crumbling in example sentence

Like the crumbling “Majestic” hotel in J. G. Farrell’s novel Troubles, about the end of British rule in southern Ireland, the eponymous apartment block was a metaphor for the state, and its inhabitants are figures representative of different aspects of Mubarak’s Egypt.

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Our sewers are crumbling.

And when this started to get serious, I thought, I'd better put a really serious warning label on the box that this comes in, because otherwise people are going to be getting this and they're going to be turning into agents of creative change, and governments will be crumbling, and I wouldn't have told people, so I thought I'd better warn them.

I watched everything that I'd built crumbling, and it looked like all this stuff was going to die and 15 years work would have come for nothing.

Spindly trees, rusted gates, crumbling stone, a solitary mourner— these things come to mind when we think of cemeteries.

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