Examples of crumb

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By the time they come back, the rest of the group have finished the food, leaving a few crumbs in a bowl.
By the time they had eaten up the crumbs they had forgotten the way out and in their hunger ate the insulation from the wiring.
We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left, contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval.
On the other hand, agents take into account the information provided by the crumbs by following the highest concentration of crumbs.
Several guerrillas, wreathed in cartridge bandoliers, were reading comics near an empty café where an old man was picking crumbs of bread off a table.
Holding her book, the witch threw crumbs and seeds to the spirits which danced with her cat and dog in the circle.
The provincial landscape of factions and fractions- localities squalling in impotence, absurdly competing for crumbs of resources, with no incentive to collaborate- is of course its own creation.
Which crumbs were the ducklings fighting for?
When they were done eating, it was a sin that no one left room for the crumb cake that was yet to come.
I have not a crumb of comfort, not a grain.
Imagine a single cell in a little water-filled pocket of a soil crumb producing signal molecules: it will experience high levels of signal because the signal cannot diffuse away.
Even if, as proposed, aid is increased, it is just crumbs, a philanthropic gesture, in the face of the real needs of developing countries.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
As somebody else said, all that seems to be on offer at the moment is the crumbs.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
What will be left to our democracies but the crumbs of power which these omnipotent forces leave them?
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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