rockslide
Example Sentences
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The vast majority of the scenic highway has reopened after damage during back-to-back years of extremely heavy rainfall, including two other landslides around Regent’s slide and a rockslide near the Rocky Creek Bridge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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 rockslide took place in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve on the western shore of the Dead Sea, a popular tourist site.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 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
