Verb (used without object) : The ancient walls had crumbled.    From Dictionary.com. 

The British colonial government, in short, crumbled to nothing in the spring of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wars Between England and America] Reference

It is supporters like these for a candidate like Clinton, which is why her campaign crumbled from the start.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analysis: Clinton scores a win, Obama nears finish line] Reference

Speaking afterwards, Du Preez described the ruling as "very unfortunate", saying the CCMA had "crumbled" under argument by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Put the flour in a large bowl, add the butter and mix it with your fingers until it has 'crumbled' and is completely mixed with the flour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

They crumbled from the bottom and then the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin?] Reference

Confidence in Labour's ability to manage the economy had "crumbled", he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epolitix News] Reference

Andrade said Holland's car "crumbled" and she was trapped because her door wouldn't open.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enterprise Home RSS] Reference

By the time Eastside opened a few months later "everything just kind of crumbled," Guckian said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statesman - AP Sports] Reference

Dressings, cheeses and toppings such as crumbled bacon are easy ways to add zest to your veggies.    From Wordnik.com.  [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference

Vary the salad by adding new ingredients, such as crumbled feta or queso, toasted pepitas or pickled jalapenos.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

"crumbled" over the years, the organization has not necessarily had a "Plan B".    From Wordnik.com.  [MetsBlog.com] Reference

After the concert, the band's image crumbled further.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody Knows The Troubles They've Seen] Reference

As Brenneke's credibility crumbled, others rose to take up the tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Of A Myth] Reference

Our country and our lives have crumbled and are crumbling around us.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Boyce: Welcome to America: Head Down, Trying to Survive the Day and a Bad Marriage] Reference

And when the Soviet Union crumbled, so did its powerful sports authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Artistry Lost] Reference

Empires crumbled, dictators fell, colonialists let go, "great men" faded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanfare For The Common Man] Reference

The ceiling had crumbled, there were broken lights and drywall everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington's Heroes] Reference

Mayor Giuliani thinks the blue wall of silence has crumbled during the Louima case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Must Be Held Accountable] Reference

I am totally devastated as I saw the towers crumbled before my eyes from your balcony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

The hotel where we had stayed was destroyed by the earthquake, crumbled to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyclef Jean: Open Letter: Why I Decided to Run for President of Haiti] Reference

But this year, one by one, the pillars underlying the Henny Youngman Economy crumbled.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Fools Rush In, The Joke's on Them] Reference

Meanwhile, when fog blocked Ataturk Airport in November, the airport's systems crumbled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkish Air Charts Growth Path] Reference

Once her conspiracy theory crumbled to dust, she resorted to badmouthing the CSAP scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Gottlieb: Hard truths or sour grapes?] Reference

His crumbled station house seems a perfect refuge, but solitude is not so easy to come by.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's The Big Deal?] Reference

His game crumbled and his ranking, which had been as high as number two in 1997, plummeted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goran, Anyone?] Reference

Try sustenance through a straw -- crumbled cookies in thick dairy drinks that sip like a snack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Weary from battle, the SF soldiers arrived in Baghdad and watched as the regime crumbled within days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undercover Ops] Reference

But Perot's movement crumbled as he grew more reclusive and lost control of Reform to the Buchanan brigades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perot's Pick: A Twist In An Old Feud] Reference

The UIC crumbled within days of the Ethiopian intervention, and their leaders fled toward the Kenyan border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Testimony] Reference

As communist ideology has crumbled, the city has become known for rampant corruption, lawlessness and sleaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wasted Youth] Reference

At this pace people will still be wheelbarrowing crumbled houses well into 2015, Haiti's next presidential election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Schuller: Falling through the cracks or unstable foundations?] Reference

One of the book's great feats is to reveal, in neatly themed chapters, the human scale of this crumbled Soviet world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova] Reference

He created a party from scratch, won elections and formed a government that briefly coalesced, then crumbled, in 1994.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight Errant] Reference

The iron curtain between Black and White America has crumbled, and racist attitudes of the past seem surprisingly archaic these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [How The Flames Shaped The Shield] Reference

In the past year, the nation's (and the world's) financial regulatory infrastructure, much of which dates to the New Deal, has crumbled.    From Wordnik.com.  [15: Timothy Geithner] Reference