Crumbling in example sentence

In 2000, the chief physician at Paris's crumbling La Santé penitentiary, Veronique Vasseur, wrote a scathing exposé of "virtually medieval" conditions, complete with rat infestations, rotten food, extreme temperature variations, desperate self-mutilations, bullying, drug-dealing guards, and widespread sexual assault, often perpetrated by staff.

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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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