sinkhole

Example Sentences

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They were also astonished to discover a massive, vertical sinkhole called a blue hole, 75km south of a bank called Grand Turk, that formed when a cave collapsed inwards.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Bundy and the mayor led a driving tour of the shattered coastline, stopping at one property where the destruction of a home revealed a sea wall below with a pre-existing sinkhole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Rev Fillery said the 300-year-old tomb had caved "quite suddenly" into a "large sinkhole".

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

In August, heavy rains caused a drainage pipe to collapse on Route 38 in Burlington County, resulting in a sinkhole.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

Reporters had been calling Dads office, the Department of Civil Engineering, asking how a school could be built over a huge sinkhole.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor