avalanche
Example Sentences
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April is always an avalanche, but this year the early parts of the fall and spring season were deserts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
Anthropic said last week that it is investigating potentially unauthorized access to Mythos, adding to fears about a potential avalanche of software bugs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
“It’s an avalanche of earnings power,” says Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
"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
At 8:32 A.M. on a Sunday morning, May 18, the north side of the volcano collapsed, sending an enormous avalanche of dirt and rock rushing down the mountain slope at 150 miles an hour.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing avalanche
"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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Earth Science - Middle School
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