Example sentences for: avalanche

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

  • Since by 1987 Paul Romer's 1986 papers on increasing returns and growth had started an avalanche of derivative work, he was certainly joking--what he probably meant was "Oh no, not you too."

  • What follows is less a slide down a slippery slope than a professional avalanche that results in either a dismissal or a narrow escape to the next "dream job," where, of course, the cycle repeats yet again.

  • 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.

  • Party patriarchs fret that Republicans will bury Democratic candidates under an avalanche of expensive TV ads.

  • Many European papers give prominent coverage to news that another avalanche roared through a village in the Austrian Alps Tuesday.


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