After centuries of crumbling gently before exciting our taste buds with your delicate flavour you have finally departed your origins.

A compost heap of soft walls that gently crumbled, flowing down to join the mud at their feet.

Today the hotel is gently crumbling around the edges and streaked here and there with rust stains.

They crumbled gently in our fingers.

In the centre of the circle the magic items were gently crumbling to dust.

It has many beautifully carved windows in mud brick houses that are gently crumbling away.

He came apart like a big and complex jigsaw puzzle made of tiny pieces, crumbling gently at the extremities and then vanishing into the air.

Other fine Baroque buildings in the town, a Unesco World Heritage Site, have been similarly scrubbed, though plenty of buildings are still gently crumbling.

Proof that appearances really can be deceiving, this apparently ruined gatehouse, gently crumbling away at the edges, is actually a luxury hideaway for two.