Broke into little pieces

Usage examples of crumbled.

He reeled, and would have crumbled to the ground had not two or three others seized and steadied him.

Most edges crumbled and rounded off as if exposed to storms and climate changes for millions of years.

We must have had some such normal notions to fall back upon as our eyes swept that limitless, tempest-scarred plateau and grasped the almost endless labyrinth of colossal, regular, and geometrically eurythmic stone masses which reared their crumbled and pitted crests above a glacial sheet not more than forty or fifty feet deep at its thickest, and in places obviously thinner.

Cities built there had crumbled before their time, and had been found suddenly deserted.

The close aspect of the moon as the galley drew near proved very disturbing to Carter, and he did not like the size and shape of the ruins which crumbled here and there.

And it was very odd that shingles so worm-eaten could survive, or bricks so crumbled still form a standing chimney.

The plains immediately below the city gates at the center of the bulwarks were obscured by the burning oil and wooden rampways, which had crumbled entirely into masses of flaming timbers.

Massive forest trees splintered and snapped, and ragged sections of mountains were torn free and crumbled into dust as the blistering force of wind and earthquake gripped the four lands.

The parapets had crumbled, strewing blocks of stone in a ragged circle around the keep, many of them overgrown with grass.

She groped at the bundle, found a faded leather pouch that actually crumbled to dust in her hands, leaving nothing in her cupped fingers except, strangely, a nail marked by rusting stains.

Cold cinders crumbled under his hands as he marked a patch of ground with soot, then stamped around in a curious dance, singing in a reedy voice that occasionally slipped low.

But her native armor crumbled, strained beyond tolerance, and she flung herself onto her cot, curled up in a ball and gave in to gut wrenching sobs.

I took a little bread which remained, and I crumbled it on the window-sill for the birds.

Weeds peeked through the cracks and gaps, and the shoulders crumbled away into the earth around them.

Felisin looked back to see Kulp on his feet, leaning against the crumbled door frame.