We see the crumbling of the nation, the breaking up and disintegration, until the only suitable picture is that of the valley of dry bones, very many and much scattered, unrelated, unarticulated, disintegrated.

I crumbled one.

Phew! It hurts me to see my identity crumble.

Without warning, the lighthouse began to crumble under their feet.

The fascist racist separatist movement will soon crumble.

The bird found a few morsels of bread, of which it would only eat a crumb, and gave the rest to the other starving sparrows which it called up.

Wherever a loving hand had strewn bread crumbs for the birds, the little bird only ate one crumb and gave the rest away.

The fish swam up for crumbs.

Oh crumbs!

Sami was crumbling under the pressure.