1.   By then, the church was a crumbling ruin.

2.   The crumbling ruins of an ancient kasbah clung to one end of the island and offered the perfect perch from which to watch the sun rise over the lake.

3.   The seeds of political and economic change have been sown amid the crumbling ruin of Cuban communism.

4.   Today, in a Burma in political turmoil, most of the old road is a crumbling ruin, except for one pristine stretch near Myitkyina.

5.   We stopped at the crumbling Maya ruin over a dramatic drop to the sea, then proceeded homeward, encountering our machete-wielding friend.

6.   Today Habibia School is a crumbling ruin, but still children crammed into one room for the start of their new school year.

7.   To Diyab, watching donkeys plod down a street bordered by the crumbling ruins of medieval Cairo, trouble may be brewing again.

8.   Behind the crumbling ruins of a bombed-out brick building, the rusting empty cage of the African mandrillus sphinx has become overgrown with subtropical vines.