Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: She does a sort of Shortening, which in culinary terms means making the pastry crumbly to create a nicer effect on the palate.

Modifies a noun

• texture: Its flavor is creamy and mild with a crumbly texture.

• compost: Large amounts of clippings dumped on a small heap tend to turn into green slime rather than crumbly compost.

• cheese: The Greeks stress that this crumbly tangy cheese has been made in Greece from sheep's milk for the past 6,000 years.

• soil: The finished compost will look like a rich crumbly soil, without a trace of its original contents.

• rock: An exciting and exposed climb up 300 meters of crumbly rock left them both suitably excited!

• material: It forms a soft, crumbly material, uniformly dark brown in color.

Modifying Another Word

• too: If the mixture is too crumbly to form balls, then add a little more melted butter.

• very: Bat droppings are similar to small mammals but on closer inspection are very crumbly due to the insect contents.

• quite: The wall has then been filled with what looks like more lime mortar and again is quite crumbly.

• slightly: At certain times of year the paste becomes firmer and slightly crumbly.

• somewhat: The ascent of the Wrekin, along the main track, initially found dark fine-grained dolerites, which were very weathered and somewhat crumbly.

• rather: Other cheeses can be frozen but on defrosting they may become rather crumbly.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Other cheeses can be frozen but on defrosting they may become rather crumbly.

Preposition: in

• texture: They are usually classed as soft cheeses but can be crumbly in texture.

Preposition: with

• bite: Moist and crumbly with a mildly acid bite, which becomes more fruity as it matures.