landslip
Example Sentences
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The disastrous two-month closure in 2014 was caused not by a breach of the sea wall in Dawlish, but by a serious landslip down the line near the neighbouring coastal town of Teignmouth.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Siluch said he had seen another landslip about an hour earlier but took little notice.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
In November, a train travelling from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line derailed near Carlisle after hitting a landslip, leaving four people injured.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
Train passengers are facing a second day of major disruption after a Glasgow to London train derailed, seemingly after hitting a landslip.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
There had once been a landslip here; the piece of the cliff which had fallen lay as heaps of stones below, and through these the road now passed.
From Mary by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
