sinkhole

Example Sentences

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Bundy and the mayor led a driving tour of the shattered coastline, stopping at one property where the destruction of a home revealed a sea wall below with a pre-existing sinkhole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

A major incident has been declared over what police have called a sinkhole at a canal in Shropshire, leaving boats either stricken in a gaping cavity or teetering on the edge of a drop.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

Rev Fillery said the 300-year-old tomb had caved "quite suddenly" into a "large sinkhole".

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

In Texas, a sinkhole around a former oil well in McCamey has grown 200 feet wide and 40 feet deep.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

And when the core at last burns itself out, will some of the Earth slump into the void, leaving a giant sinkhole on the surface?

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson