1.   The builders are trying to prop up the crumbling walls of the church.

2.   They needed to repair the crumbling walls of their draughty homes, too.

3.   Hidden under vines and moss, the crumbling wall was almost indiscernible.

4.   When she looked into the dark she saw corrupt towers and crumbling walls, high on the cliff, the rooting place, now, of gigantic trees.

5.   Before leaving the checkpoint, we walked down the street and took pictures of the crumbling wall above a bunker that once housed the World War II Gestapo headquarters.

6.   For years, the crumbling walls and sloppy administration at Kings County Hospital Center have made it the infirmary of last resort for the impoverished residents of central Brooklyn.

7.   Francis took the words literally, thinking he was to repair the crumbling walls of the church.

8.   Her many long stays in Italy seemed to draw her to abandoned houses and crumbling walls, both for their texture and their symbolism.

9.   Holes yawn from crumbling interior walls, the stone structure needs shoring up, and the original bare wood walls have been painted over in an ugly mustard yellow.

10.   Now the buildings are a jumble of pirated utility wires, makeshift windows and doors, broken elevators and crumbling walls.