But for laminated armor, (several thicknesses of thin plates,) harder and stronger iron offers greater resistance to shot, and steel crumbles less than when it is thicker.
We have to look back as a man might do escaping from the ocean on to some frail sand-bank which ever breaks off and crumbles away at his very heels.
And when once Christ is seen, as Scripture shows Him, our former self appears poor and crumbles away.
A round furnace is made, the lower part of which, in order to be able to endure the force of the heat, is made of rock that neither melts nor crumbles to powder by the fire.
There is no inconsiderable peril in riding over this broken ground; for the soil crumbles away, and the ravines open downward, treacherously masked with brushwood.
The petulant moist wind of the south-east corrodes its surface; and when it falls, it crumbles to powder.
As the coal burns underneath, the earth overburden crumbles and falls, taking with it all rocks, trees, and vegetation on the surface, leaving in its wake red scoria and other less brightly colored clays.
As the vein is consumed, the earth crumbles and falls, and the rains carry it away to the streams.
It adheres to the tongue, and crumbles down when immersed for some time in water.
When heated to a red-white it crumbles under the hammer; at a cherry-red it becomes hard and brittle; and as it progressively cools it becomes still more unmalleable.
The gluten and mucilage disappear, in a great measure, the colour becomes whiter, and the substance becomes so friable that it crumbles into meal between the fingers.
A piece of wet chalk left out on a frosty night often crumbles to pieces.
The rock that crumbles away inland is spread out on the bed of the river or at its mouth.
Man crumbles to dust at the presence of God; yea, though he show himself to us in his robes of salvation.
The holiness of God makes the angels cover their faces, and crumbles Christians, when they behold it, into dust and ashes.
Grace, when it comes, breaks and crumbles the heart in the sense and sight of its own vileness.
Not with hatred's undertow Doth the Love Eternal flow; Every chain that spirits wear Crumbles in the breath of prayer; And the penitent's desire Opens every gate of fire.
This decay was called by Dolomieu, "la maladie du granite;" and the rock may with propriety be said to have the rot, for it crumbles to pieces in the hand.
Where these can have the opportunity of acting, opposition dies with fear, or crumbles away by conviction.
There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away like a fractured arch.
One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self.
While, in the house, for ever crumbles Some fragment of the frescoed walls, From blisters where a scorpion sprawls.
If that book is not true, if its authors were unaided men, if it contains blunders and falsehoods, then that stone crumbles to dust.
The frontal hernia that crumbles the sand with its impact has a tendency to make play for some time after the emergence from the ground.
Under the impact of the spikes, the sorghum slowly crumbles to pieces.
On the west, my village crumbles into an avalanche of garden patches, in which plums and apples ripen.
From this bright flame a white vapour exhales; after which the swelled mass partly crumbles down, and turns to a light white powder, sometimes spotted with red, according to the force of the fire.
But God knows that such walls cannot be built,--that that kind of stone crumbles away in the foolish workman's hands.
Let us go on putting it to the hardest test; let us try it until it crumblesin our hands,--try it by the touchstone of action founded on its requirements.
One warning: see that it is ripe; for the Camembert that crumbles in its dryness is nothing short of iniquitous.
Much crust, if you please--much crisp crust, my dear, that melts and crumbles delicious in the mouth.
There lies the weak point of the whole conspiracy--it crumbles to pieces if we attack it in that way, and the means of attacking it are in possession of the Count.
When the wood does not cut clear, but crumbles as if it were too dry, the defect may sometimes be remedied by putting the block into a deep earthenware jug or pan, and placing such jug or pan in a cool place for ten or twelve hours.
As if shaken by an earthquake, the palace crumbles to ruin; the garden withers away and turns to a barren waste; like broken and wilted flowers the women are seen bestrewing the ground; Kundry falls to earth with a great cry.
Tristan's will crumbles under it, the will which had kept him loyal to Mark, which had made him, to the point of offence, shun the radius of her dangerous magnetism.
Far away from here I shall read it again and again, till it crumbles in my hand and scatters into dust.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crumbles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
