rockslide

Example Sentences

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After several recent rains, a main highway into Yosemite National Park is closed indefinitely due to a rockslide, state officials said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

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

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2024

The magic of Geiranger fades as I walk into one of the world’s most advanced early rockslide warning centers in the nearby industrial fjord town of Stranda also on tsunami watch.

From National Geographic • Oct. 20, 2023

The rockslide took place in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve on the western shore of the Dead Sea, a popular tourist site.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

The doorway through which she’d fallen was ten feet off the ground, now completely blocked with debris that had cascaded into the room, making a rockslide.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan