crumblings

The small stone container that accompanies the beautifully presented bread in its soft felt wrapping doesn't contain butter, but pork suet with crumblings of roasted solids from pig fat.

Noma's Spectrum of Flavors Bruce Palling 2011

(We'd been trained to cut our lardons big in school, at the request of our 250-pound instructor: "I didn't get this way by eating lettuce," he said, disparaging the "puny French chefs" who prefer their bacon cut into "teeny crumblings.")

Sophie Brickman: My Moveable Feast: Bringing Home the Bacon 2009

But recent crumblings at Chumley's, Ward's Bakery and other edifices have driven the point home, and made me wonder what other addresses may be in iminent danger.

Subway Inn: Collapse Candidate? Brooks of Sheffield 2007

But recent crumblings at Chumley's, Ward's Bakery and other edifices have driven the point home, and made me wonder what other addresses may be in iminent danger.

Archive 2007-05-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2007

Sophia exclaimed in surprise; for the room beyond had been swept clean of all but the most recent crumblings of plaster.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

Bubba held up a plastic sample bag containing asphalt crumblings.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

Now that I have reviled you for the blow that sent me staggering among peelings and crumblings and old scraps of meat,

The Waves 2003

He glanced at her peanut crumblings with an impressed smirk and held out his hand.

Payback Francine Pascal 2001

Eisenhower had won office by virtue of his own popularity and the first crumblings of the Solid South.

Carter on His Own Wills, Garry 1976

First, then, the Venus was found in 1825 at the foot of a little hill, where it had been covered up by successive crumblings of the earth above.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various