Crumbling in example sentence

Six feisty old folks -- blind Peter Brocco, hard-working superintendent Ian Wolfe and his nagging wife Ruth McDermott, kindly writer William Hansen, agoraphobic eccentric Frances Fuller and fierce, formidable old battle ax Paula Trueman -- refuse to leave their crumbling tenement building despite the fact that it's going to be demolished to make way for expensive high-rise apartment complexes.

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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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