crumblings
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of crumblings
Example Sentences
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This is the kind of couple that saves their crumblings for behind closed doors in an effort to maintain their bragging rights.
From Salon • Dec. 12, 2022
Our existing architecture offers few points for comparison with those vast edifices whose very ruins resemble the crumblings of mountains rather than the remains of buildings.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile
Time and volcanic crumblings and desert wind have carved the great beast into the semblance of an elephant at rest.
From Still Jim by Morrow, Honoré
They are found in Ceylon, in Thibet, and in Burmah among the crumblings of primordial rock.
From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Saltus, Edgar
The materials of which they are made were probably once, long, long ago, the crumblings from granite and other crystallized rocks, but they show now no signs of crystallization.
From Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky by Holden, Edward Singleton
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