Example sentences for: eruption

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

  • Around 1500 b.c. , a massive volcanic eruption at Santorini destroyed not only Akrotiri — under feet of ash and pumice — but the whole Minoan civilization.

  • In the 1980s, it was 1,281 m (4,203 ft) high, having added 79 m (259 ft) with the big eruption of 1944 and subsequent smaller ones.

  • And in Congress, every eruption of "partisanship" or "unfairness," whether real or manufactured, bleeds away the institutional credibility necessary to impeach the president.

  • The peninsula is actually formed from the volcanic debris that was deposited following a disastrous eruption in 1706, when most of the town and its inhabitants were destroyed.

  • The Friendship Store on east Chang’an Avenue and the aging Wangfujing Department Store (255 Wangfujing Dajie), once purveyors of Beijing’s most up-to-date fashions and top merchandise, have been superseded by the sudden eruption of huge shopping malls and plazas.


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