avalanche

Example Sentences

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Apart from a moraine collapsing, an avalanche or an unusual amount of rainfall can destabilize a lake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

It is unlikely there will be an avalanche of new streaming deals but miners could look at it as an option to create value from existing assets, they write.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Two more people have died in the Sierra, adding to the toll of a deadly winter season that last week claimed nine lives in the Castle Peak avalanche.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

Nine people died last week in the Castle Peak avalanche north of Lake Tahoe.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

I felt myself to be among the survivors of some great natural disaster, some plague, some avalanche or earthquake.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates