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Example Sentences

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For some, that description by Plymouth City Council leader Tudor Evans and the images of the collapse 12 years ago came to embody Britain's crumbling Victorian railways.

From BBC

Writer Stuart Heritage, who has had the honour of cooking apple crumble for Lawson, says now "the landscape has changed an awful lot for cookery shows".

From BBC

The USA's Malinin finished eighth after a horrendous free skate in which he visibly crumbled under the pressure.

From BBC

While Essayli has boasted of charging more than 100 defendants with assaulting federal officers or impeding immigration agents, those cases are crumbling in court.

From Los Angeles Times

Britain's 200-year-old canal network was once the backbone of the country's economic transformation during the Industrial Revolution, but is now crumbling, experts say.

From Barron's