landslip

Example Sentences

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Chris is calling for an emergency alternative route to be set up using the fields beside the landslip.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

The disastrous two-month closure in 2014 was caused not by a breach of the sea wall in Dawlish, but by a serious landslip down the line near the neighbouring coastal town of Teignmouth.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

Siluch said he had seen another landslip about an hour earlier but took little notice.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

In November, a train travelling from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line derailed near Carlisle after hitting a landslip, leaving four people injured.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

Far to the left a dim light, I felt sure, marked the spot where a terrible landslip had occurred but shortly before and several English people had lost their lives.

From In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India by Sheets, Emily Churchill Thompson