crumble
verb (used with object)
to break into small fragments or crumbs.
half-crumbled
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a word derived from
crumble.
Example Sentences
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Weather forecasts warned of heavy rainfall in Ishikawa, leading to worries about landslides and further damage to half-crumbled homes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
They used tent canvas to make huts against the standing chimneys and half-crumbled brick walls.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
They stood in the shade of a half-crumbled awning.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
Long destroyed, long ruined, it blends with the rocks, continuing and delusively ending them by the broken, dented line of its batteries, its shattered roofs, its half-crumbled towers.
From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Herman Bernstein
Of cabin and barn, of course, there was nothing left at all, save the half-dug cellar and the half-crumbled chimney.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
