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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
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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.
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President Obama has proposed a new set of reforms to fix what he calls a crumbling education system.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
GHibbs commented on the word crumbling
There are adjectival uses in the examples.
August 22, 2011