avalanche
Example Sentences
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"I'm very sad that avalanche covered the school," one child wrote, addressing the letter to a teacher they didn't know had already been killed.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
"So when we had a lot of snow in January, there was a high avalanche risk."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
It is unlikely there will be an avalanche of new streaming deals but miners could look at it as an option to create value from existing assets, they write.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
The decisions will help determine the direction of an economy that powered through an avalanche of change in 2025 and emerged in the new year on a better-than-expected footing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Late the next day we had got down there and were creeping along that same snow-slope, very softly, not sneezing, lest we bring down the avalanche.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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