sinkhole

Example Sentences

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The sinkhole was believed to have been caused by a ruptured sewage pipe.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

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

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

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

The Daisetta sinkhole opened in 2008, “swallowing oil tanks, trees, telephone poles and several cars,” according to a report in the Dallas Morning News.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

There’s probably a religious motif, though in the foreground something more immediate: money, the release of others jailed in some sinkhole for doing more or less the same thing these men are doing.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood