Crumbling in example sentence

Business has been booming in this respect lately, with The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and many less exalted journals full of claims that the global order is crumbling, America’s ability (and willingness) to save it is in terminal decline, and the prospect of avoiding major conflict in the decade ahead is illusory.

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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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