landslip

Example Sentences

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A large section of the path on the cliffs outside Charmouth in Dorset was lost in early February after heavy winter rains caused a landslip.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 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

Operations director Sam MacDougall said early indications suggested the train had hit a landslip.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

M. A., on abrupt transition from one fossil fauna to another, 184.Dorsetshire, landslip in, 321.——, waste of cliffs of, 319.Dove,

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir