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There was disappointment burning in her that she could not quite analyze, the disappointment of a child seeing illusions crumble.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRUMBLE
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crumble
 v.  break into small pieces; cause to fall in pieces
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her heart.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
2  All that Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season sufficed to make a world crumble.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
3  The old houses crumble and new ones rise.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
4  This monstrous mass must be made to crumble.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
5  "Well, we crumble it up," answered Vassily, taking up some seed and rolling the earth in his palms.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
6  Well, mind you crumble up the clods," said Levin, going towards his horse, "and keep an eye on Mishka.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
7  There was disappointment burning in her that she could not quite analyze, the disappointment of a child seeing illusions crumble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  She thought wildly: Let the whole Confederacy crumble in the dust.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  The stars began to crumble and a cloud of fine stardust fell through space.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  It was like a miracle; but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumble into dust and passed from our sight.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  Their prosperity is crumbled up behind the scenes, into nice little promotions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
12  It was Napoleon, the immense somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to advance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
13  A whole European system crumbled away.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
14  The soil had given away, the pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great difficulty in getting him out again.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
15  The framework crumbled away for a certain length.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
Example Sentence:
1  The earthquake made the wall sink and start to crumble.
2  Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.
3  Its sister mission in Tumacacori was built of adobe and has crumbled under the weight of the years.
4  Under the pressure, the flint crumbled into fragments.
5  I cannot recall any other instance in modern times in which a huge and mighty state crumbled to dust.
6  The country's infrastructure is crumbling because of inadequate investment.
7  This cheese has a crumbly texture with a strong flavour.