boulder
Example Sentences
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On Friday night, a large boulder fell from a mountainside and rolled onto Highway 18 west of Big Bear Lake; two cars were then involved in a vehicle collision.
From Los Angeles Times
Asphalt was washed away on Big Pines Highway and callers on Christmas told the California Highway Patrol that hundreds of vehicles were getting stuck trying to pass large boulders in the roadway, the CHP reported.
From Los Angeles Times
In “The Myth of Sisyphus,” Camus describes a man doomed to push a boulder uphill forever and asks us to imagine him “happy.”
Astronauts documented boulder tracks and landslides that appear to have been triggered by moonquakes.
From Science Daily
Residents at the time described seeing slurry carrying "trees and big boulders", and buildings left deep in sludge and mud.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
