avalanche
Example Sentences
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But after what one news outlet called “an avalanche of opposition from climate groups,” party leadership blocked the vote.
When snow falls in extreme storms as opposed to steadily over the course of the season, it increases the risk of avalanches and can force resorts to stop running lifts due to safety concerns.
From Los Angeles Times
The 50-year-old's mask of respectability was ripped away in 2021 as an avalanche of testimonies piled up from women describing harrowing abuse he inflicted upon them.
From BBC
A large swath of the country, from eastern Washington to western Arkansas, is currently facing an avalanche of hard and spiky bouncing beach-balls of the noxious, unpleasant weed.
It also makes products for civilian uses such as oil-and-gas exploration, avalanche control and mining.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
