cliff crumbles
Frequency: 6.36.8 per million words
to break apart into small pieces
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Examples (10)
- The soft chalk cliff slowly crumbles into the sea.
- We watched in awe as the unstable cliff crumbled before our very eyes.
- After the storm, a large section of the cliff crumbled, blocking the coastal road.
- Geologists predict that this part of the cliff will crumble within the next fifty years.
- You can see the fissures where the rock cliff is beginning to crumble.
- The constant battering from the waves causes the sandstone cliff to crumble.
- Over millennia, the entire cliff has crumbled away, creating the sandy bay we see today.
- Warning signs were posted near the crumbling cliff edge.
- The ground shook slightly when the weakened cliff finally crumbled.
- It's a natural process for an old cliff to crumble due to erosion.