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- verb Present participle of
crumble .
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Examples
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This conveys a sense of change, loss and disorder and I love the title crumbling from the wall.
Judging (Marvel’s February) Books By Their Covers | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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A paper from the Brookings Institution in March entitled "Rebuilding America: The Role of Foreign Capital and Global Public Investors," called for U.S. authorities to embrace sovereign wealth funds to fund what it described as "crumbling" national infrastructure.
Australian State Seeks Out Sovereign Wealth Enda Curran 2011
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President Obama has proposed a new set of reforms to fix what he calls a crumbling education system.
Democracy Now! 2009
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Made in crumbling, bomb-scarred East Berlin in 1946, "Murderers" is not only Germany's first postwar production, but a haunting film of disillusionment and atonement.
John Farr: Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed John Farr 2010
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Made in crumbling, bomb-scarred East Berlin in 1946, "Murderers" is not only Germany's first postwar production, but a haunting film of disillusionment and atonement.
John Farr: Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed John Farr 2010
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They lived in crumbling castles and kept bats and spiders and rats and people as pets and spies.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR OCTOBER 22ND | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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America is crumbling from the inside because voters vote "Gimme gimme gimme".
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Made in crumbling, bomb-scarred East Berlin in 1946, "Murderers" is not only Germany's first postwar production, but a haunting film of disillusionment and atonement.
John Farr: Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed John Farr 2010
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Made in crumbling, bomb-scarred East Berlin in 1946, "Murderers" is not only Germany's first postwar production, but a haunting film of disillusionment and atonement.
John Farr: Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed John Farr 2010
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Made in crumbling, bomb-scarred East Berlin in 1946, "Murderers" is not only Germany's first postwar production, but a haunting film of disillusionment and atonement.
John Farr: Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed John Farr 2010
GHibbs commented on the word crumbling
There are adjectival uses in the examples.
August 22, 2011