AVALANCHE in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for AVALANCHE, such as:
1. I predict from all this an avalanche of dinners and routs.
2. The avalanche struck the ski resort in the late afternoon.
3. More than a dozen people were dug out of the avalanche alive.
4. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her.
5. The avalanche had shaken and slid a little forward, but it did not yet crash down.
2. The avalanche struck the ski resort in the late afternoon.
3. More than a dozen people were dug out of the avalanche alive.
4. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her.
5. The avalanche had shaken and slid a little forward, but it did not yet crash down.
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Meanings and Examples of AVALANCHE
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avalanche
n. a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
v. gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
Classic Sentence:
1 I predict from all this an avalanche of dinners and routs.
2 The avalanche had shaken and slid a little forward, but it did not yet crash down.
3 Immense glaciers approached the road; I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage.
4 Then in a shy avalanche arrived the entire aristocracy of Gopher Prairie: all persons engaged in a profession, or earning more than twenty-five hundred dollars a year, or possessed of grandparents born in America.
5 Can't you see it, Raina; our gallant splendid Bulgarians with their swords and eyes flashing, thundering down like an avalanche and scattering the wretched Servian dandies like chaff.
6 "But I have plenty of both," said Khlobuev, and with that went on to deliver himself of a perfect avalanche of projects.
7 A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her.
Example Sentence:
1 The avalanche struck the ski resort in the late afternoon.
2 More than a dozen people were dug out of the avalanche alive.
3 Most avalanche accidents occur on north- and east-facing slopes.
4 The park ranger warned the skiers to stay on the main trails, where they would be in no danger of being buried beneath a sudden avalanche.
5 Rescuers said they had searched the entire avalanche area and found no trace of the missing climbers. Commander of the local mountain gendarmes said it was possible the bodies were buried deep under the ice and snow.
6 Repeated attempts to rescue him failed because of snow storms and avalanches but on Wednesday two Pakistani military helicopters managed to fly close enough to his perch for one of them to dangle a line to him.