Fall of Rome

Cultural  

1. The collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. Two of the main events of the Fall of Rome were the plundering of the city of Rome by an invading tribe, the Vandals, in the middle years of the century and the abdication of the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, in 476.

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Example Sentences

Ms. Greenfield is convinced that few people learned their lesson in the 2008 crisis, and she has spent a decade worrying about a modern-day version of the Fall of Rome.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2018

But a shortage of phosphorus simply isn’t something that’s going to happen in any time scale less than that which separates us from the Fall of Rome.

From Forbes • Jun. 27, 2013

In fact, they could not help but reenact the Fall of Rome several more times, as it was great fun to keep collapsing and getting up again.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Gibbon would have smiled a cruel epigram, if he had been expected to thrust a Latter-Day Pamphlet on the social question into one of his chapters on the Fall of Rome.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic

As the Fall of Rome churned its way up to the sunny wharf of Chadwick's Landing, the groups already on the excursion bristled with excitement.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)