44 examples of landslides in sentences

Had lightning split a thick tree beside them, or an unexpected landslide thundered past and swept the ground away at their feet, they could have been hardly more disturbed.

And where is that good Monsieur Monk to-night?" The woman overlooked the innuendo; or, rather, buried it under a landslide of emotional acting.

Landslides are frequent in the rainy season.

Above these are gravels brought down by the floods and landslides of more modern times, in which may be found potsherds and bones.

"This book has a lot in it about the big landslides.

" "Another landslide?" asked Blake with a laugh.

" "The bill will be large," said Young sullenly, for he began to see that it was as futile to resist the grey giant as it would have been to attempt to stop the progress of a landslide.

Both the road and the scenery change, the first becoming more and more steep and stony, the latter showing more and more of savage grandeur, as the green, smiling valleys are no longer seen, but in their place appear barren and rugged rocks and slopes, with the marks of the ravages wrought by storm, landslide and avalanche.

Far above, the side of the mountain was still marked by a raw wound where the landslide had swept, cutting deeper and deeper, until it choked the narrow ravine with an incalculable mass of sand, crushed trees, and a rubble of broken stone.

The war has merely brought about, with the rapidity of a landslide, a state of affairs for which the world was ripe.

There has been quite a small landslide on the S. side of the Island; seven or eight blocks of rock, one or two tons in weight, have dropped on to the floe, an interesting instance of the possibility of transport by sea ice.

Landslides and related phenomena.

Landslides and related phenomena; a study of mass movements of soil and rock.

Little landslide.

Landslides and related phenomena.

Landslides and related phenomena; a study of mass movements of soil and rock.

R682747. Rules for playing the game: Landslide.

McTurtle thought that his loss had been noticed, but as he made his way to the kit-truck for some more teeth he discovered that a landslide barred the way.

Another landslide.

His tug of war was strife against landslides, rheumatism, pneumonia, and frozen feet.

Two hours out from Yokohama, the train boy came into the coach, and with a smile as cheerful as if he were saying, "Happy New Year," announced that there was a washout in front of us and a landslide at the back of us.

The original chapel of St Michael was destroyed by a landslide in 1271.

The aspect of the higher hills in the interior might mislead an etymologist to derive the word morne from the French adjective which means gloomy, they are so marked by the ravages of the hurricane and earthquake, so ploughed up into decrepit features by the rains, the pitiless vertical heat, the fires, and the landslides.

It was of no use for Nicolai to urge in self-defence that there was no other pass; it was his business to find another, and not imperil men's lives by leading them into a God-forsaken ravine like this, choked up with landslides, fallen trees, water, lava, and masses of volcanic rock!

I believe we must have jumped our horses across that mountain torrent fifty times in an ascent of 2000 feet, to avoid the rocks and landslides which appeared first on one side and then on the other.

44 examples of  landslides  in sentences