sinkhole

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, a woman had to be rescued when her car fell into a sinkhole that emerged on a road near the western town of Cáceres.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 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

The Daisetta sinkhole opened in 2008, “swallowing oil tanks, trees, telephone poles and several cars,” according to a report in the Dallas Morning News.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

"Boy," he said, "I understand that you not only carried Mr. Norton out to the Quarters but that you wound up at that sinkhole, that Golden Day."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison