Instead residents are watching the Papa cliffs crumble around them at an alarming rate.

Yes; let the universe crumble around me, its wreck shall carry me away still resolute.

If Sara Fredrika were to turn up now all the walls would crumble around him.

I lived there for 10 years, watching the walls literally crumble around me as a parade of housemates moved in and out.

Millions of Americans feel that the moral world is crumbling around them.

Still, Maduro clings to power as the national crumbles around him.

The others crumbled around me, shriveling at the first piercing shriek.

Since then she'd been looking like her world was crumbling around her feet.

A week since that horrible day when all her plans crumbled around her.

Dirt crumbled around the base of her trunk as she widened and rose.

When things are crumbling around you, all you can hope for is temporary advantage.

He felt as though the world was crumbling around him.

And once again he was left with the shaky feeling of reality crumbling around him.

As her world-theirworld-crumbledaround them, Amanda Grayson looked at her son and almost smiled.

Much of the wall had crumbled around the opening and the ceiling overhead had partially collapsed.

We were buckled to our knees, with all we thought strong and everlasting crumbling around us.