Example sentences for: avalanche

How can you use “avalanche” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Just as rescuers were digging out victims of Tuesday's avalanche in Austria, another hit Wednesday, decimating four buildings.

  • The you-are-there feel of the story is upset only slightly by the disorienting avalanche of Seussian place-names in such passages as: "The police closed the main road from Pristina to Pec soon after dawn.

  • Specifically, the distribution of avalanche sizes follows a particular mathematical form known as a "power law" that is found in many natural and some social phenomena, such as the sizes of earthquakes and the sizes of cities.

  • By January 1989, when the Bengals reached the playoffs, what had begun as a struggle for individual expression ended in an avalanche of conformity.

  • When they become too steep--when they exceed some "critical" slope--there will be an avalanche.


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