landslip

Example Sentences

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Chris is calling for an emergency alternative route to be set up using the fields beside the landslip.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

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

A full account of this remarkable landslip, with a plan, sections, and many fine illustrative drawings, was published by Messrs. Conybeare and Buckland,433 from one of which the annexed cut has been reduced, fig.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir