rockslide

Example Sentences

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The vast majority of the scenic highway has reopened after damage during back-to-back years of extremely heavy rainfall, including two other landslides around Regent’s slide and a rockslide near the Rocky Creek Bridge.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024

Authorities in California have cleared a rockslide that was blocking a road, by using explosives.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2024

After hiking 886 feet, I was eyeing one historic abandoned fjord farm, Skageflå, where, before it was partially destroyed in an 1873 rockslide, parents tied ropes around children so they wouldn’t fall into the fjord.

From National Geographic • Oct. 20, 2023

It was not immediately clear what caused the rockslide.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

She was about to ask Percy how he had jumped so far when she heard the skittering of a rockslide in the hills to their left.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan