"It would probably crumble right in my hands, so I just leave it be."

The problem after that was finding a suitable wipe; the dried leaves she tried to use just crumbled in her hands.

Every time she felt the wood, it crumbled in her hands.

As she picked it up curiously, it began to crumble in her hands.

As he finished, it crumbled into dust in his hands.

At the end of this particular day, because the first three had crumbled in her hands, she was doing a lot of praying.

A small spring shot across the room, and the lock crumbled to pieces in her hands.

But he has never stood closer to seeing his legacy crumble in his hands.

I would hold 17th-century books and original handbills that were crumbling in my hands.

The wood down there, below the water line, was spongy and rotten: she could see it crumbling away in his hands.