rockslide

Example Sentences

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After several recent rains, a main highway into Yosemite National Park is closed indefinitely due to a rockslide, state officials said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

On March 30, a rockslide below Highway 1 south of the Rocky Creek Bridge left the southbound lane partially undermined and impassable, the governor’s office said.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

Authorities in California have cleared a rockslide that was blocking a road, by using explosives.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2024

After hiking 886 feet, I was eyeing one historic abandoned fjord farm, Skageflå, where, before it was partially destroyed in an 1873 rockslide, parents tied ropes around children so they wouldn’t fall into the fjord.

From National Geographic • Oct. 20, 2023

The doorway through which she’d fallen was ten feet off the ground, now completely blocked with debris that had cascaded into the room, making a rockslide.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan