cascade

Example Sentences

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Her hair cascaded down her back in curls.

From Barron's

“What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sails at me?”

From Literature

There’s a plant with vines cascading down from its spot on top of a tall wooden dresser, and a pretty glass ball is hanging in the window above a comfortable-looking chair.

From Literature

The fires, the floods, the cascading disasters, aren’t aberrations we’ll overcome and move past, but rather the conditions under which we now live, she said.

From Los Angeles Times

However, the company said in a Monday statement that it was grappling with a power outage at a U.S. data center that was causing a “cascading systems failure.”

From Los Angeles Times