Example Sentences

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Many people will experience up to a week or longer of fatigue, fever, congestion, sore throat, headache and overall crumminess.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

Technological advances and an everything-all-the-time internet culture have made retrieving artifacts easier than it’s ever been; the general crumminess of 2020 and 2021 has perhaps made it more irresistible as well.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021

Three-centimetres long and able to fray after a nanosecond of use, they are the epitome of crumminess.

From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2016

The city’s contradictory charms, as they are wryly termed, its fabled mix of savoir-vivre and absolute crumminess, remain in good supply.

From New York Times • May 20, 2011

She wasn’t sure how much more crumminess she could take.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega