How To Use Crumble In A Sentence

They are not people who crumble at the first sign of a strong opinion. Times, Sunday Times
The petals were so dry and apery that they crumbled at the first touch. The Seventh Scroll
Paper will start to peel from the wall, and in the worst cases plaster will start to crumble.
The second trial also failed - the root crumbled every time he tried to flatten it into a thin disc for frying.
However, if a system has no flexibility, then it crumbles as soon as an unanticipated event happens.

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The city crumbled and burned to brands and ashes.
In the remains of the village the factory crumbles quietly, blocks of concrete and old gateposts tell of what has been.
Crumble the goat cheese and let come to room temperature.
For dessert we shared a crème brulée and a rhubarb and ginger crumble with ice cream.
The nights are drawing in, but you may not be ready for big cardies and bowls of plum crumble just yet.
We couldn't resist the home-made bread and butter pudding and the rhubarb and ginger crumble.
The cheese was rather high, and tended to crumble when we opened the tin, but it was quite edible.
So the explanation comes and the whole edifice crumbles.
They crumbled to our mighty power with our losses barely reaching through the double digits.
To make the crumble, put the flour, oatmeal, oat cereal and sugar into a food processor and blend for 30 seconds.
The copper, for instance, may have an alloy that crumbles from oxidation. INCA GOLD
Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side; and of how these ancient proud ones crumbled to dust within the hour while the cunies cursed and sweated at junking the coffins. Chapter 15
My speciality is a banana and pear crumble, with lots and lots of butter.
Will apple crumble be on the menu for this slice of conceptual art? Times, Sunday Times
Add the crumbled Shropshire blue cheese to the dip, then season to taste with salt and pepper. 5.
Closer to home, I use up any under-ripe fruit in a cinnamon crumble as a treat for the children.
Before my mum died there were a lot of fruit crumbles using produce from our garden. Times, Sunday Times
In that very first innings of the series four batsmen scored 203 runs and the rest crumbled for just 67.
Today's crumble features bananas and pears, and a topping starring toasted pecans and bran flakes.
AS the economy crumbles, women are seizing the family purse strings. The Sun
Crumble the cheese on top and season with salt and pepper. Times, Sunday Times
Joe's resolve crumbled further as he nearly shook with rage.
Icebergs would languidly crumble to nothing just outside the mouth of the harbour.
If you like, you can finish it with crumbled amaretti biscuits, sticks of shortbread, and of course, your butterscotch sauce.
Elaborate apartments over a century or two old crumble either side of the wide avenue.
These treats, though hard, are bendier than they are brittle and likely to crumble when chomped down on. Epinions Recent Content for Home
It posits a near-future scenario in which society has crumbled due to some unexplained catastrophe.
Sprinkle the crumble mixture evenly over the fruit, and bake for 50 minutes to an hour.
Suitable planting conditions exist when the surface soil is dry and has small hairline cracks that allow it to crumble when moved by the cutting coulters, disk openers, cover blades, and press wheels.
A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.
The walls of the Kingdom started to crumble and collapse, huge pieces falling down onto the helpless Elves.
Or else, the productions crumbled under the weight of laboured interpretations.
The feudal deference, and the ingrate privileges, crumble under the pressure for social equity.
Tear or crumble in the cheese and mix in the basil. Times, Sunday Times
Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
The former has the classically draped general rising from his sarcophagus, while around him the pyramid of Eternity crumbles and the figure of Time breaks his scythe.
You can't compromise with crumble, though, and I was only willing to order it if it came with custard, which it didn't.
These people crumble when their arrant nonsense is confronted with simple common sense.
However, Microsoft still commands a overwhelming market share and it is unlikely that will crumble into _nothing_ within foreseeable future. — Microsoft’s Vista Problem, by the Numbers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Never mind that if our building didn't crumble, we'd have to survive for weeks indoors.
What had once seemed an unbreakable resolve - the hallmark of strong leadership - has begun to crumble at the edges.
The Empire began to crumble during the 13th century.
Tears pricked Melissa's eyes at the scorn in Marsey's voice and for a moment she looked as if she would crumble.
Sprinkle the crumble mixture over the sponge, then add a scattering of almonds. The Sun
I cannot recall any other instance in modern times in which a huge and mighty state crumbled to dust.
Then his entire head seemed to dissipate at once, to crumble with the slow-motion horror of an avalanche starting. THE KILL CLAUSE
If you rake windrows to dry out any stems on the bottom, leaves are apt to crumble and fall away, leaving just sticks for hay.
What that means is that the juiciest of tips, when subjected to research, tend to desiccate and crumble. The Fiddler in the Subway
The one room building was lop-sided now, and a portion of the roof had collapsed in on itself, causing the steeple to lean and crumble.
Great stalactites hung from the roof and dripped water upon the floor, on which numerous small stalagmites were forming, where they had not been crumbled away by the passage and repassage of sleighs. Jacqueline of Golden River
Across the Maritimes, scores of wharves are being left to crumble, as the power of the sea exerts its inexorable force.
After that their marriage crumbled. The Sun
But as coercion becomes more extreme and resistance crumbles, prisoners lose the sense of continuity with their past. Trauma and Recovery
Inside it a few pathetic bones glowed red hot and then crumbled into fine ash.
Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.
Desserts included crumbled amaretti in a rich dark chocolate mousse and home-made apple tart made with thin slices of apple.
Sure are imperviable to crumble, putrid, corrosion or insect infestation; be given barrier edifices formed in the Crosby Finance
allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder
The old rationale for bearing with mere authoritarians has crumbled away with the passing of the expansionist Marxist-Leninist totalitarians.
How many streets will have to remain unswept, how many refuse bins left to overflow, and roadways left to crumble to help pay for this latest face-saving exercise.?
The apple and raspberry crumble is marvellous. Times, Sunday Times
So then I fried the bacon until impossibly crisp, crumbled some on my salad, placed the rest in a mortar and proceeded to pestle the remainder.
The temple crumbles, and a flying saucer rises from the debris and disappears.
Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
Crumble 100g feta over the top and put into the oven for about ten minutes. The Sun
Faced with the growing hostility of politicians, some tax havens quickly crumbled under the pressure. Times, Sunday Times
They will watch their careers and dreams crash and burn or just slowly crumble with age. Times, Sunday Times
We also ordered the pear crumble which was greatly undersold by its simple description - the crumble contained all sorts of exciting nibbles like pistachio nuts and came with jasmine ice-cream.
Under the pressure, the flint crumbled into fragments.
It was then, that the pizza man went on to open the box completely to reveal the Shakespearean tragi-comedy of it all the pizza velcro-warmer had done such a phenomenal job at keeping the pizza hot, that all the cheese had crumbled and slid to one entire corner of the pizza Ugotsoul Diary Entry
Lay the crumble mixture on top of the fruit. The Sun
The cliff face was starting to crumble into the sea.
Important though it may be. its disappearance becomes inevitable from the day on which the established order crumbles.
Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy(Sentence dictionary), the wall crumbles.
Crumble over the goat's cheese. The Sun
A shortcrust tart of Dorset crab is made with rust-coloured brown meat and a pastry that cracks and crumbles in all the right ways. Restaurant review: Albert's Table
The first part of the trip explores the coast, a region of emerald rain forests, deep fjords, rich sealife, and tidewater glaciers that crumble into icy seas.
The state has the same will, the same conscience-voice for good and evil as the Christ; yet it crumbles itself away into dogmaticalness of civil officers against one another. Uncollected Prose
Stir in the prawns and serve with a crumble of feta cheese. Times, Sunday Times
Our American democracy has reached a nadir and we are experiencing a constitutional crisis and threat to the rule of law this democracywas founded ondue to the gross incompetence, fraudand 'tyranny by the decider 'GWBush and his neo-con/big oil cabal ... we are on the precipice of watching our very democracy and republic as we know it crumble .. Obama's Speech Accomplishes More Than It Appears
The humor consists in watching the hero's falsely assuring world of "boring predictability" quietly crumble.
Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.
Yet its opulent, mouldering furnishings appear intact, its books look down from the shelves, their spines unspoiled but their pages crumbled by termites.
Sprinkle the demerara sugar and rosemary over the top then crumble the remaining mixture over to more or less cover.
AS the economy crumbles, women are seizing the family purse strings. The Sun
You bring to life in vivid detail an aspect of WWII that we haven't heard a lot about: the frenzied evacuation of the Germans as the Eastern front crumbled and the Russians advanced. A conversation with bestselling author Chris Bohjalian about his novel, Skeletons at the Feast
Several samples were collected, most of which desiccated and crumbled to powder within a day or so, but one sample retained its glassy, bright blue character for more than a year.
Add the shallot and garlic and crumble in the dried chilli. Times, Sunday Times
Crumble the cheese over the salad.
The crumble is my favourite part of the whole bar. Blueberry Crumble Bars
Vicky's flawless rhubarb-and-nut crumble with ginger-and-rhubarb-ripple ice-cream and crème anglaise was the star of the show, but my trio of chocolate puddings wasn't far behind.
Today's crumble features bananas and pears, and a topping starring toasted pecans and bran flakes.
Apple and orange crumble It requires a bit of patience to prepare the fruit for this crumble. Times, Sunday Times
The great empire began to crumble.
Desserts were served - lemon curd cake, an apple jam crumble, clootie dumpling with hot custard, ice-cream in cones for the children. Archive 2004-12-01
Serves 6 (with accompaniments)2 large parsnipsOil, to grease1 small savoy cabbage, 4–6 outer leaves only 150g hazelnuts40g butter1 red onion, finely chopped150g chestnut mushrooms, finely chopped100g cooked chestnuts, roughly chopped100g stilton, crumbled (or other vegetarian-friendly cheese of your choice)100g brown breadcrumbs2 tbsp chopped fresh sage1 free-range egg, beaten1. How to cook the perfect nut roast
Mix in a few stewed apples and cover the mixture with a regular crumble topping. Times, Sunday Times
With blackcurrants and blackberries in a crumble laced with custard served out of my big Cornish Blue jug.
By April 1989 price controls started to crumble and monthly inflation rose from 5% in March 1989 to 73% this February.
The cookies crumbled
The same can be done with cake or biscuits and used as a topping for crumbles and puddings. The Sun
I do love blackberry, apple and blackcurrant crumble, but not five nights in a row…
Stir in the prawns and serve with a crumble of feta cheese. Times, Sunday Times
Sydney glared balefully, but her resolve crumbled under the power of the almighty puppy dog eyes.
In his Wednesday speech, Obama took on the Ryan approach in harsh terms, calling it a vision that would see "roads crumble and bridges collapse," young Americans unable to go to college, seniors left uncared for, Medicare ended, and 50 million Americans left without health insurance. Obama Debt Speech: Tax Increases, Medicare Changes Included In President's Plan
England were playing under massive pressure after six consecutive defeats, and crumbled. Times, Sunday Times
Add anything from meatballs to crumbled feta and capers. Times, Sunday Times
Andy Robinson, Scotland's coach, looked on with an expression approaching anger as his tight five crumbled. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
There have been too many negative headlines, plus the nagging argument that money is frittered away on incidentals while hospitals and schools crumble to dust.
Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants 'lives, the story unfolds through the perspectives of four competing voices-from the troubled and mercurial figure of Meriwether Lewis, the expedition leader who found that it was impossible to enter paradise without having it crumble around him, to Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl - captive and interpreter for the expedition, whose short life mirrored the disruptive times in which she lived. I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall: Book summary
The bushes produce enough berries for a cobbler or a crumble, but not enough for jam.
Shiso Fumi (crumbled dry “beefstake” or shiso plant with salt and sugar) it makes your rice purple! on November 22, 2009 at 12: 51 pm | Reply wererabbits Bento #268 « Were rabbits
For years Blackburn's Church Street Pavilions have been allowed to crumble and decay so that the Grade ll listed buildings have become nothing more than an eyesore.
It looks pretty piled into curls of crisp lettuce heart with or without a crumble of feta cheese. Times, Sunday Times
Apple Crumble consists of brown sugar ice cream with cinnamon streusel, apples and a caramel swirl.
If you are left alone, that quality of education you are boasting about will crumble and dilapidate. Obama, Peres and Colbert on the Persian New Year - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
He crumbled to the floor, clutching his groin in agony.
Now add the garlic and crumble in the dried chilli. Times, Sunday Times
I've been dossing for so long that my hair has all fallen out and I'm willing to bet my makeup has crumbled as well.
They will watch their careers and dreams crash and burn or just slowly crumble with age. Times, Sunday Times
Heartbroken parents signed a petition calling for an inquiry into why so many schools crumbled when other buildings remained standing. The Sun
Tall grass overgrew the mine sites, and the mine equipment began to rust and crumble as the years wore on. THE STORY OF THE KINKASEKI MEMORIAL
Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
What had once seemed an unbreakable resolve - the hallmark of strong leadership - has begun to crumble at the edges.
Ivy will not harm fired clay bricks, nor will it cause mortar to crumble unless the mortar is already unsound.
It is supporters like these for a candidate like Clinton, which is why her campaign crumbled from the start. Analysis: Clinton scores a win, Obama nears finish line
Muriel kept a flow of small talk steadily through tomato soup, liver casserole and apple crumble.
On the other base add the butternut squash and crumble the feta. Times, Sunday Times
But as the perfect family picture begins to crumble, each character's terrible secret is revealed.
Ancient palaces and concrete tower blocks had crumbled in Kathmandu valley, where bodies were being unearthed from the rubble. Times, Sunday Times
Then he fetched a pot of milk and plenty of white bread, gave him a bright newly-coined farthing in his hand, and said, “Hans, hold that farthing fast, crumble the white bread into the milk, and stay where you are, and do not stir from that spot till I come back.” Household Tales
Crumble over the feta cheese, season well and bake for a further 10-15 minutes. The Sun
Lay the crumble mixture on top of the fruit. The Sun
At the point where people realised that psychoactivity was making as many brain-fried fuck-ups as boddhisatvas, the dream started to crumble from within. More Aesthetics
Combine the asparagus pieces with the quinoa, add the tomatoes and crumble over the feta. The Sun
To Angus it looked as though the North slope of the ridge was ready to crumble and avalanche into the corrie below.
Cold cornbread or hard-tack crumbled into a tin can and boiled with perhaps a few scraps of meat was "cush" and "cush" tasted good, hot off the coals, after a hard day's march or fighting. A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A.
The British colonial government, in short, crumbled to nothing in the spring of The Wars Between England and America
I repeat that I do not think that Hitler, when he gets the oil, will be victorious, because Germany will crumble from the inside, but I think they will try everything before they absolutely crash. The Present Situation in the Balkans
Yet it is widely known that much of the public-sector spending has resulted in substandard infrastructure that has crumbled within a short period of time.
The aging, untended planks, however, crumbled under their surging weight and broke away with a palpable snap, precipitating the struggling pair like so many sacks of sand to the lower level.
The first part of the trip explores the coast, a region of emerald rain forests, deep fjords, rich sealife, and tidewater glaciers that crumble into icy seas.
The earthquake made the wall sink and start to crumble.
Liszt felt a part of him crumble and dissolve, and he suddenly felt empty.
The bones crumble to a fine dust that whips past us, leaving only the forgotten fires still raging in the kitchen.
She would have already peeled the potatoes, mixed the crumble, earned Mum ' s approval. READY?
They are not people who crumble at the first sign of a strong opinion. Times, Sunday Times
Roughly crumble the cheese into a bowl.
The sway of earth _shook_ like a thing unfirm," thousands of houses crumbled to their base, tens of thousands of human beings were buried beneath ruins, or engulfed by the gaping ground. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
The relative ease with which the Stalinist edifice began to crumble after 1989 caught most observers off-guard.
First thing they had seen on arriving at the base of the rock was a partly crumbled brick wall and beside it a clay water pot with a piece of old yellow robe used to strain the water.
Crumbles and breaks, th 'encumber'd lines must flow. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
Without them structure dissolves and society crumbles. Times, Sunday Times
There was a loud explosion and cracks appeared in the roof, revealing concrete nine inches thick, with steel reinforcement, but several more charges were detonated before the roof finally collapsed and the walls crumbled in.
Round it off with peach and pear crumble and vanilla ice cream. Times, Sunday Times
In many ways, Regina is the perfect performer for the occassion: Russian-born, she was part of the large emigration of Russian Jews to Israel and the United States when the Iron Curtain crumbled in the late 80s. Regina Spektor! Free Concert on the National Mall, June 1 « The Blog at 16th and Q
Our role is not to "solve" the crumbling of an edifice, by which I suppose one might mean nipping the crumblement in the bud, or at least trying to slow its relentless progress towards utter devastation and ruin. Hooting Yard
Matthieu's mother, Corinne, had prepared five desserts for the celebration and, knowing what a good cook she is, I got in line illico* to sample the gateau au chocolat, * crumble au poires, * Madeleines, gateau au yaourt* and a brownie ... or two. Savoir Vivre
The texture of the urban landscape is cracked stone, grass, crumbled brick and buddleia. Gary, Indiana: Unbroken Spirit Amid The Ruins Of The 20th Century
Place a layer of tomato slices over the pesto then top with crumbled cheese.
The brown club eventually turns into a seedhead, which crumbles over the winter and sends masses of cottony seeds flying. Times, Sunday Times
The nights are drawing in, but you may not be ready for big cardigans and bowls of plum crumble just yet.
Yes, you make lame quips while your marriage crumbles. Times, Sunday Times
With the advent of Jewish Emancipation, when ghetto walls crumble and the shtetlach begin to dissolve, Jewry-like some wide-eyed anthropologist-enters upon a strange world, to explore a strange people observing a strange halakah They examine this world in dismay, with wonder, anger, and punitive objectivity. Indymedia Ireland
He has only to blow raspberries out his nose and the structured factually based opinions of others just crumble before his incomparable wit and wisdom.
This week alone a ceiling collapsed at the weightlifting venue and a bridge crumbled outside the main staging ground, Nehru Stadium, injuring 27. Dave Zirin: When Sports Attacks; The 2010 Commonwealth Games
Its sister mission in Tumacacori was built of adobe and has crumbled under the weight of the years.
There was also an apple crumble and custard for dessert.
Nearly all blue cheeses are scalded and lightly pressed and tend to crumble.
You put them right in a situation or you crumble and just give up. Times, Sunday Times
Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.
Crumble over the feta cheese, season well and bake for a further 10-15 minutes. The Sun
With a similar perverseness, the potatoes crumble off forks in the process of peeling, upheaving from their centres in every direction, as if they were subject to earthquakes. Bleak House
The butter in the crumble is cut in, not melted, making it very crumbly but surprisingly not dry. Crumbly Apple Squares
Strip the thyme leaves on to the courgettes and crumble the feta over the top. Times, Sunday Times
In Benghazi, the country's second-largest city and the hub of eastern Libya, a group of army colonels who recently defected said they are plotting the end their former commander's 42-year reign, which began to crumble last week as Libyans joined the antiauthoritarian protests roiling the Arab world. Libya Rebels Tighten Noose
Sprinkle the demerara sugar and rosemary over the top then crumble the remaining mixture over to more or less cover.
Public spending has doubled in the past 10 years but our roads and pavements crumble. Times, Sunday Times
AS the economy crumbles, women are seizing the family purse strings. The Sun
Huge tea: soup, steak pie, potatoes, apple crumble and custard, washed down with a bottle of black sheep ale.
The mousse was the better of the two, primarily because the richness of the chocolate was nicely offset by the coulis, but also because my crumble was so dry that it was a trial to munch through it to the raspberries underneath.
Neither boy waited to see more; another kettleful of chickpeas smoking in a heap on the floor; soda crackers crumbled and strewn in a line next to the doorsill. Excerpt: Beloved by Toni Morrison
Distribute the crumble mixture evenly on top, and place a parsley leave in the center.
In her little blue-gingham morning dress, out of which her neck flowered white and ever beautiful of nape, Lilly crumbled up her biscuit, eyes miserably down, the red-hot pricklings which invariably accompanied these scenes flashing over her and a crowding in her throat as if she must tear it open for language to make them understand. Star-Dust
A sampler of lemon sorbet was sound, a little too ingratiatingly sweet, perhaps, but the apple crumble ice-cream was sensational: lustrously thick and creamy, yet light, its flavours true and clean. Swansea's top 10 budget eats
Bake in 350 F oven until crumble is golden, about 40 minutes. Chocolate Raspberry Crumble Bars
As the lava walls of the cirque crumble they expel a constant dribble onto the dirty snow below.
I'd chosen the apple-and-bramble crumble, which the menu said came with a fresh cinnamon crème anglaise.
Crumble over the goat's cheese and scatter the coriander on top. Times, Sunday Times
I believe the castle is about to crumble and republicans and democrats alike (those that actually believe that integrity still means something) will be disgusted. Think Progress » DeLay Hysterics: Indictment Among the Most Baseless “in American History”
Ice cream for the children, shared apple and blackberry crumble for my wife and me, while my parents shared a sherry and raspberry trifle.
Old World War II gun emplacements and observation towers rust and crumble silently.
In the late nineteenth century, organ pipes in many cathedrals of Northern Europe began to crumble in very cold weather.
The waterfall came down upon his body, forcing him to crumble under its mighty power.
Pour the boiling broth - vinegar mixture over the potatoes. Toss in the crumbled bacon and chives.

How To Use Crumble In A Sentence

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