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Sentence Examples But an avalanche of English-language pirated copies of the film is spreading across China. Be aware that it's a high mountain area and gets a lot of wind, hence windslabs and accompanying avalanche danger. Suddenly there was an avalanche of theories designed to explain the rise in crime that had previously been denied. Only 25 will be available this season, as even Ski Scotland doesn't believe there will be an avalanche of applications. I have had a sudden avalanche of e-mails, just at a time when I'm struggling to finish a script. The technology avalanche often leaves her feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and exhausted. Then, the process quickly sparks an electron avalanche vaporizing everything within the laser spot. In an instant, an avalanche of electrons is rolling over the surface in a catastrophic flashover. It's like an electron avalanche, he says, that can flood up toward the ionosphere or slide earthward, depending on the electric field direction. To Angus it looked as though the North slope of the ridge was ready to crumble and avalanche into the corrie below. Witnesses saw an avalanche start as a skier left the pistes and traversed the slope. They were traversing Windy Ridge in Uintah back country known for heavy avalanche activity, he said. He'd make a powerful traverse, knock off a good-sized avalanche, then turn around and make a few turns where the slide had scoured. We were going to be descending in a storm, in waist-deep snow, through perfect avalanche conditions, and I was convinced we were going to die. When propelled by an avalanche of media-fueled fear, the inert indigent of the net slowly update their lapsed anti-virus software. Rescuers are probing the snow for an unknown number of people swept up in the massive avalanche. Blyth and Bob are extremely experienced mountaineers and mountain guides, and Blyth also runs the avalanche forecasting service in Scotland. Seymour and Cypress offer the most off-piste snowshoeing, so remember to buddy up and check avalanche and weather conditions. All that happens is that another avalanche of data is added to a largely unconsulted archive which is increasingly unaffordable to store. On their descent they were hit by a huge avalanche of massive rocks of snow. Show More Sentences The team confirms that the slide was the result of a snow avalanche from a ridge top, which triggered both a flood and debris flow. Figure 2 shows a mass erosional feature that we interpret as a rockslide, or rock avalanche. The blast caused an avalanche of rocks and dust, definitely stopping the pursuit. An avalanche roaring down a mountainside may seem to be wildly out of control, but actually it is governed by certain equations. There will be an avalanche of applications, much greater than what the Government expects. With that he scooped his young daughter up in his arms, amidst a sudden avalanche of giggles, and put her to bed with her brothers. There will even be antennae attached to lamp-posts in major cities to cope with the expected avalanche of radio waves. We all know during festive seasons such as Christmas the children will be deluged by an avalanche of toys. A sudden avalanche of selling by these parties at current depressed prices amid rising global demand and commodity prices makes little sense. Here's hoping the subtlety won't be lost in the upcoming avalanche of boffo Christmas fare. It just stays on the valley floor, sometimes crossing snow bridges to avoid side hills and obvious avalanche slopes. The list of gear for skiers and snowboarders include skis, boots, poles, avalanche safety equipment, helmets, bindings and goggles. We heard snapping sounds, pops, little explosions, and then the walls bulged out, and we heard a sound like an avalanche. The lake has been rendered shoreless with the wreckage of a major avalanche. In the last five years, however, that average has jumped to 28 avalanche fatalities per year. Mercury in Virgo certainly activates an avalanche of fault-finding, complaints and gossip, and you may find yourself playing the blame game. The nation's industrial heart, Ho Chi Minh City whacks the visitor like a sensorial avalanche. If a pretty, snowy mountain slope is tilted steeply and bereft of trees, it's an avalanche zone. These days, with my fear of snowslides, if I'd fallen in such a place I'd have died of fright before an avalanche could take me. I certainly don't enjoy watching this, nor do I relish the avalanche of concern trolling that came with it. Show More Sentences Combine such dense firn with a daily rhythm of freeze and thaw, and spring avalanche danger is easy to predict and avoid. The massive stone avalanche fell on the scurrying cougar, and forced the big cat to take refuge in the canyon. I don't think about the rocks or the sheer ice or the exposed drop-offs or the avalanche danger. A perfectionist and overthinker, it's easy for small issues to avalanche into big problems for you, and then letting go is tough. Blackpool attempted to rally, but again a series of inexpiable officiating decisions again saw an avalanche of penalties against the visitors. State data indicate that the surge in gasoline prices over the past year has not triggered an avalanche of ride-sharing. Scrutiny of last season reveals a snowball that grew into an avalanche of problems. Each avalanche season has its own unique meteorological history and risk profile, as weather and temperature build layers in the snowpack. An avalanche forecaster ferrets out a dangerous weakness in the snowpack with the shovel shear test. But even in this computerised age, avalanche prediction is an inexact science and that is because of the variables involved. Apparently it goes through three stages of filtration, but all the same, you wouldn't want to be caught in an avalanche of it, would you? As loose as dry sand, such crystals often constitute the critical weak layer of a slab avalanche. In this case, it is possible that the channel-forming fluid has removed some material deposited in the avalanche. An avalanche of mud and rubbish crashed down upon a group of more than 100 shacks and huts, which were home to around 800 families. The entire northern flank of the mountain collapses and falls as an avalanche lowering the height of the mountain by 1,500 feet. Preventing yourself from being buried by an avalanche of history homework can seem mighty impossible. We pushed the door open and we were almost buried in an avalanche of ancient computer monitors, toasters, electric jugs and bicycle parts. Debris avalanche deposits along the Vallehermoso barranco suggest massive destruction of the north flanks of the volcano. Why would anyone choose to build directly in the path of a potential avalanche? They advised qualified parties to bring an ice pick, an avalanche probe and crampons. Show More Sentences He also notes that in the last 10 years, most avalanche fatalities have involved skiers. Blows rained down on me from all sides and I fell to the floor under a merciless avalanche of abuse. Just remember to take responsibility and arm yourself with proper backcountry gear, and check the avalanche conditions. For the trained symbologist, watching an early Disney movie was like being barraged by an avalanche of allusion and metaphor. The force caused a small avalanche of dirt to fall down, nearly landing the girl. Rescuers are trying to recover the bodies of an estimated 100 people buried under an avalanche of mud in a little village just near Mumbai. They didn't spend long in there, possibly due to fear of sudden movements causing an avalanche. But once the messages descend I remain overwhelmed by the avalanche of letters, information, bulletins and, of course, junk email. His own punches at times found a target, only to be rocked with an avalanche of blows in retaliation. How can faith and fear abide in the face of this avalanche of enlightenment, this flash-flood of knowledge and exposure to everything that once had been only Our secrets? Miners and managers alike sometimes rode the tram, especially in the winter and early spring when avalanche dangers made the tramways the safest route to the mines. My husband and I were wandering through the city one slow summer Saturday, when suddenly there was an avalanche of music, colour, satin, sequins, balloons and feathers. These radio units help skiers caught in an avalanche to locate each other, emitting a stream of high-pitched bleeps like a comedy sci-fi homing device. The problem is that many of us cannot find this place of inner peace and stillness, and so the sacred is lost in an overwhelming avalanche of noise and confusion. Horst Ulrich, a 72-year-old German on a trek with a group of friends, watched four Nepali guides swept away by an avalanche. Most stereotypes have a very slight basis in reality, but by overwhelming them with an avalanche of complete nonsense any meaning they have will be lost. These very intense fields in very low-pressure conditions generate an avalanche of electrons on to metals that can become destructive and cause losses in heavy investment. Additionally, the grudging acceptance of the Welsh victory was subsumed beneath an avalanche of regurgitated nonsense on qualification from the previous week. At the base of the camp, a recent avalanche had disgorged burlap sacks, old door frames, mortar boxes, rolls of bailing wire, and pieces of fiberglass. Around the bays, the continent's ancient ice-cap creeps inexorably down to the sea in shelves that crack and avalanche with the sound of howitzer blasts. Show More Sentences The mouth of the corrie gives a view of the cliffs and the distinctive feature of a massive rock slab, which is covered by snow in winter and is prone to avalanche. Now, you know when an avalanche goes downhill it gains momentum. Many of the other Nepali Sherpas working on the mountain witnessed the avalanche as it covered their friends and fellow workers. They had a son named Nima, but Lopsang was soon swallowed by an avalanche on the Lhotse Face. He strode back to the van and returned with his largest cornet yet, four flakes poking out like the legs of an upturned chocolate chair buried in an avalanche of ice cream. It's the idea of things rushing up on you suddenly, landing on you like an avalanche, hearing a distant rumble and then suddenly finding yourself surrounded by emotion. The great financial firm collapsed under an avalanche of bad debts based on bad bets in 2008, precipitating the global crisis. But drinking for every triple Lutz, American flag or smirk from Putin could cause a calorie avalanche and sick Sochi gut. The loose snow avalanche is generally not as deadly as the slab type and forms when powder snow falls on the mountainside and just cascades down the slope. They could well have calculated that winging Chen was the best way of unleashing a sympathy vote for the Green cause that would yield them an avalanche of cash in lost wagers. There have been reports where this dog will change direction or position for no apparent reason, seconds before an avalanche of ice and snow come hurtling down a mountainside. Despite calls for investors to exercise patriotic restraint, the market opened with an avalanche of sell orders, driving the Dow to its largest point loss in history. On 1 January 1992, the day on which I survived falling into a crevasse and being almost buried in an avalanche, my tears had fallen onto the rocks and snow. A pair of entrepreneurs is getting an avalanche of inquisitive publicity after opening China's first rock-climbing gymnasium as a neighborhood bar. In the avalanche of smells and sounds and sights on the crowded beach we had forgotten the twins, each of us assuming that they were following our meandering path. I had expected a stand-up row followed by an avalanche of tears and I could not tell if what had transpired was better or worse than I had imagined. Wave after wave of panic swept over me like an avalanche and my mind tried to reconcile what I was seeing in front of me with some kind of logical thought. Faced with an avalanche of leaves, the West Coast main line resembled a branch line yesterday as passengers between Manchester and London faced a temporary timetable. Her eyes were entranced in the gray sky, just visible outside of the Plexiglas, watching the thunderous clouds roll through the sky like an avalanche. In Walhalla, an old gold-mining town in a narrow valley, disaster struck on the Tuesday night as an avalanche of water, rocks, silt and logs swept down over the town. Show More Sentences Driving rock guitar riffs, gruff grumbly vocals, speaker-busting bass and an avalanche of drums mean that it's business as usual. Conventional avalanche photodetectors are not able to detect fast optical signals because the avalanche builds slowly. A BRITISH off-piste skier has been killed in an avalanche in the French Alps, French officials said. The bodies of four other workers were found in a streambed, buried by the avalanche, 200 meters below the tunnel entrance. High avalanche conditions have thwarted two previous attempts by Viesturs to reach the peak of Annapurna. It was accompanied by an avalanche of press criticism, all of it intensely hostile to Asquith. Since other regulations like FMLA continue to produce an avalanche of reader questions, it seems like the overtime changes are a nonevent. It will be inalterably changed by the avalanche of information that would result from the opening up of the Internet in Cuba. For a snow avalanche, this energy comes as a disturbance from outside the system, although such disturbances can be arbitrarily small. It was an avalanche in lower Manhattan, reaching 2.4 on the Richter scale. And after enough snowflakes of conflict comes the avalanche. The avalanche of snow hit on the dome of the Ecrins massif, which reaches 4,000 metres, near the town of Pelvoux. Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop. A snowy winter creates a paradise for snowboarders and skiers, but with it comes the danger of avalanche. Snow-melting south winds and rain below 2,400m have marred much of the fantastic early-season base and created off-piste avalanche risk. The Liebert Type SS combines silicon avalanche diode and metal oxide varistor protection in a single cabinet. An avalanche interrupted work, so a secondary tunnel was then drilled for safety reasons as the waters rose to 10 metres below. These IXYS MOSFETs provide for very low conduction and switching losses, and are avalanche rated for hard-switching applications. Shahzad Qaiser, a senior official at the tourism ministry, said on Monday that all climbers who had been caught on K-2 during the avalanche were accounted for. In this respect it is like the rolling avalanche, that leaves detached portions of its bulk by the way, and yet keeps augmenting in its circumvolutionary course. Show More Sentences In Austria, a German back-country skier was burried by an avalanche after he tried to cut short his trek near the Hoher Riffler peak in Tyrol because of bad weather. A German skier was killed by an avalanche in the Austrian province of Tyrol yesterday, taking the weekend toll from snowslides in the Alps to four. The avalanche struck around midday at the Snow Dome in the Alps' Massif des Ecrins, an easy-to-access 4,015-meter high mountain that is hugely popular with climbers. It marks the course of a rock avalanche which fell from Grey Crag on the summit rim of High Stile, and was channeled along the foot of the glacier some 11,000 years ago. At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid. Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds. The avalanche occurred when a licensed heli-ski operator had a group of 10 skiers and two guides descending a run in the park's Cariboo Mountain range. A back-country avalanche blindsides snowboarding young people. Examples from Classical Literature The downwind portion of the dune, the lee slope, is commonly a 35 steep avalanche slope referred to as a slipface. Behind us the fine shale slid sullenly in a miniature avalanche that cascaded over the edge. One whisk from the swinged tail of an avalanche would hurl us, like a fly, into the ruin of the gaping gorge. Rhodes then fell like an avalanche upon the unexpectant and now thoroughly disorganized divisions of the retreating enemy. He asked her to marry him, and his fatness hovered above her like an avalanche. Dorcas had no dreams so happy that such an avalanche could not sweep them aside. He felt as if everything were slipping away from him, and he was trying to stand on an avalanche. What could have brought down upon him this avalanche of indignation and eloquence? As we stopped to retie it, there came the rumbling of an avalanche, apparently right over our heads. Fandor was too stunned by the avalanche of incidents to move. The next instant he was whelmed in the avalanche of her words. A dogtooth violet, commonly called avalanche lily, is abundant. Amid this tornado, an entire caravan, disorganized, broken, and overthrown, was disappearing beneath an avalanche of sand. An avid and experienced outdoor sportsman, he was climbing with friends in Aosta, Northern Italy, when an avalanche occurred. With Platina, ca. 1474, an avalanche of cookery literature started. The ingoing avalanche would have destroyed any newly-formed super-Earths by driving them into the sun. Then, as though Fortune suddenly felt that he was winning this stupendous success too easily, Bell was flung back by an avalanche of troubles. We climbed rocks which fell directly after with gigantic bounds and the low growling of an avalanche. But at this moment his eyes closed involuntarily, to receive more resolutely the terrible avalanche which was about to fall on his head, and to engulf his life. The temporary path set over the crevasses by aluminum ladders and ropes was damaged in the avalanche, and a new one was never fixed because all the teams went home. Show More Sentences I fell under that titular avalanche a torn and blighted thing. Then right away the organist would let go another avalanche. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of avalanche? Words that rhyme with avalanche What is the past tense of avalanche? What is the plural of avalanche? What is the noun for avalanche? Translations for avalanche Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words avails availment availing availed availably available avalanched avalanches avalanching Avalon avant Avant 9-letter Words Starting With a av ava aval avala avalan avalanc avalanch