What is "crumbly"

Usage examples of "crumbly".

Rudy followed, as they all followed, stumbling in the crumbly mosses of the cavern floor.

Horace opaled himself up past the tree-covered slope to the crumbly ledge and its rocky trail.

It occurs in extensive strata just a little way under the yellow soil, so it is easily got at with simple picks and spades, and, being rather crumbly, the stone is easily broken into wieldy chunks.

The prefabricated refinery processed the crumbly stuff, turning it into thick dark bricks of protoplastic, the fodder of their building and pharmaceuticals industry.

Sabrino gorged himself on crumbly white cheese, almost preserved with salt and garlic, olives even saltier than the almonds, and breads with wheat and barley flour dusted with sesame seeds.

In the year in which I electronically set down these words, standing in close sight of the end of the twentieth century, I find that I can ordinarily manage with a mere couple of kilograms of that dear crumbly soil, sealed sanitarily in a plastic bag beneath my bottom sheet or mattress.

Dwyrin flinched away from the crumbly chalklike skin, the pale eyes, almost the color of lead.

Rudy followed, as they all followed, stumbling in the crumbly mosses of the cavern floor.

In an agrarian society where the average person slept under a roof made of indigenous plants, on a floor made of indigenous dirt, the French had somehow convinced the population in dozens, perhaps hundreds of backward villages to build a cathedral-like concrete church, with a spire that reached in crumbly gray majesty to the sky, until the Vietminh or the Vietcong or a seasonal storm tumbled the spire down onto the main body of the church, turning it into another ruined recent relic for DeMudge to spew and sputter over.

They wanted to avoid touching those rocks that appeared weatherworn and crumbly.

Quickly Britt leaps down the crumbly stone steps and rushes through the low, narrow, coffinlike confines of this buried tunnel, his fast-moving feet pounding toward the chamber, ready for a colossal confrontation.

There were baskets of dried meat, fish, hard crumbly cheese, and crackerlike hard bread.

The cannonball buried itself in the crumbly mudbrick, without so much as shaking the tower thirty yards away from the impact.

She picked up a small jar, emptied some spicy-smelling, crumbly contents out on the table, dropped the plasmoids inside, closed the jar and left the apartment with it.

After he had run through the list in the ABC book, he sent back a couple of blank pages from the book with very crude drawings on them-drawings that looked as if they had been made with crumbly charcoal.