It was rather bitter as if he mocked not himself but some whole pattern that suddenly crumbled around him.

Upon the arrival of Ahasuerus the wandering Jew, the court begins to laugh and the palace suddenly crumbles.

The ground at the edge of the chasm was suddenly crumbling at his feet, he could feel it.

After the food trip and while they were traveling, the ground suddenly crumbled and covered the road.

Then, above them, the earth suddenly crumbled.

Rebuilt in 1947, it crumbled suddenly in 1967 and was rebuilt again.

I said pleadingly, as I fought to understand how my world could suddenly crumble.

To this day nobody knows for sure why the venerable landmark suddenly crumbled.

Resentments that have been nursed for years suddenly crumble.

The weathered stone beneath her fingers suddenly crumbled, and she began to slip down the rock face.