avalanche

“If we are a pebble in that avalanche, then I’m happy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

The avalanche struck on July 30, cutting off contact with the 10-member international expedition led by 43-year-old British-Nepali climber Purja on Broad Peak, one of the world's highest mountains.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

On that note, a successful trip does not require a photogenic avalanche of produce.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Sharing the news on social media, Elite Expeditions said it confirmed with "profound sadness and immense heartbreak" that Purja had died in Thursday's avalanche.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

He took the brush, and began sweeping it through the silver avalanche with fingers which were deft from practice, while the Queen closed her eyes.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

These deposits form when underwater avalanches of mud, sand, and debris rush down the seafloor and eventually settle into thick sediment layers.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

From the vantage point of our helicopter above the Alps, you can make out scars and dimples from recent avalanches.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

The latest deaths took to 18 the number of dead in avalanches in Austria this winter season.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

But while forecasting and blasting techniques have improved in recent years, it is not impossible for avalanches to hit pistes that have been declared safe.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

The electric engines were so quiet that one could hear avalanches grumble down immense blue slopes on the far side of chasms twenty miles across.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

James and the Lakers were getting avalanched, a run to undo a 17-point deficit got them to within a point before the Grizzlies smothered them with a barrage of baskets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

No wonder Norway avalanched us in the medal count last month.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2018

It added: "Two of the rescue team men avalanched traversing below No 3 Gully Buttress."

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2016

The awareness of the trend has since avalanched.

From Forbes ● Mar. 9, 2011

Macon returned with a basket and avalanched pink shrimp, corn on the cob, and red potatoes across the paper-covered table.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Unlike ski resorts, which use explosives and other mechanisms to keep inbounds slopes from avalanching during ski days, the backcountry is uncontrolled.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021

For many artists the avalanching awards and wealth of later life come with an unwelcome diminishing of ideas, but Rauschenberg was still avid for discoveries in his 80s.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2016

The results came in slowly throughout all the night, and then all at once, with calls avalanching in from key states between 10 and 11 p.m..

From Time ● Nov. 5, 2014

Added weight in the ice-filled catchment basin, caused by new snows or an earthquake avalanching down old ice and snows from the higher slopes forces an impulse through the glacier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Back we go, avalanching rocks as we scramble up the shaley streambed and arrive at the embankment where we had seen an ear of corn.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George