How To Use Avalanche In A Sentence

There are rivers of lava as well, and huge avalanches.
So those of you thinking about going hiking maybe this weekend into the Colorado Rockies, down to the San Juan, across the Wasatch and Siuwincas (ph) and up into parts of Idaho and Montana, we have what we call a considerable threat of avalanche danger in the back country areas. CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007
Giant avalanches, tidal waves, and many stock footage scenes of buildings collapsing result.
The technology avalanche often leaves her feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and exhausted.
That led to an avalanche of false accusals.

Eight people have died in the past few days after snow, avalanches and freezing temperatures wreaked havoc. Times, Sunday Times
That is 4 Super Delegates to endorse not 3 This is what we call a avalanche of supers He has gotton almost 30 supers in 1 week he only needs 146 Delegates to win the nomination Hopefully that will come to close after Kentucky and Oregon vote. Three more superdelegates for Obama
A overview of the basic structure, operating principle and properties for a new single-photon photo-detector, called vacuum avalanche photodiode (VAPD), is presented too.
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.
We've been almost buried under the avalanche of mail.
Both sides sit in the bottom six and the stats suggest there will not be an avalanche of goals. The Sun
There is a high risk of avalanche in the area so people need to be especially careful. Times, Sunday Times
By the end, players will find themselves skirting around gaping chasms and outracing avalanches while being battered senseless by Mother Nature's best.
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.
No need to whisper: Shouting, yodeling, and most other loud sounds cannot trigger an avalanche.
She could hear Avalanche begin to yap at the door and Valentine started to bark as well.
The rescuers have been forced to keep a wary eye out for further avalanches cascading down on them. Times, Sunday Times
Again we notice the ragged effect of massive snow avalanches.
Then turning to the witness he said, blandly: 'My poor friend, if you considered Cerberus to be three dogs anyhow, why did you in your examination a moment since refer to the avalanche of caninity, of which you so affectingly speak, as him?' The Enchanted Typewriter
Even scarier and more destructive than volcanic mudflows are pyroclastic flows or glowing avalanches.
Mountain goats have to contend with narrow ice-covered ledges, deep snow drifts and avalanches.
By Scottish standards this amounted to an avalanche of goals. Times, Sunday Times
We studied the avalanche dynamics of the BTW sandpile model on scale - free networks with assortaive mixing.
Debris avalanche deposits along the Vallehermoso barranco suggest massive destruction of the north flanks of the volcano.
One of the climbers killed by an avalanche in Scotland at the weekend was a member of the mountain rescue team that recovered his body. Times, Sunday Times
Then, the process quickly sparks an electron avalanche vaporizing everything within the laser spot.
The authors also predict an increase in violent storms, fires, landslides and avalanches in the Alpine region as well as widespread deforestation.
Then his entire head seemed to dissipate at once, to crumble with the slow-motion horror of an avalanche starting. THE KILL CLAUSE
Scrutiny of last season reveals a snowball that grew into an avalanche of problems.
We were the only team hit by the avalanche who all survived. The Sun
Figure 2 shows a mass erosional feature that we interpret as a rockslide, or rock avalanche.
The avalanche risk in the area is considerable. Times, Sunday Times
Effective techniques of fighting the enemy in the mountains are induced rockfalls, avalanches, glacier movements and mudslides.
It also caused an avalanche on the world's highest mountain. The Sun
If people cannot be brought to an interest in one another greater than they feel to-day, to curiosities and criticisms far keener, and co-operations far subtler, than we have now; if class cannot be brought to measure itself against, and interchange experience and sympathy with class, and temperament with temperament then we shall never struggle very far beyond the confused discomforts and uneasiness of to-day, and the changes and complications of human life will remain as they are now, very like the crumplings and separations and complications of an immense avalanche that is sliding down a hill. An Englishman Looks at the World
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.
They tended their fields and repaired the drainage ditches which had been destroyed by avalanches. Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
Finally the three men attempted the climb but after a day of avalanches they decided to stop.
More than a flurry, then, but not the avalanche the glums have been predicting. Times, Sunday Times
Kristian Matsson has been avalanched with Bob Dylan comparisons, but his anecdotes and omnipresent observations of the natural world have more in common with the Joni Mitchell of "River. S.X. Rosenstock: The Tallest Man on Earth: New Folk Grows Numinous
They suggest that fish are very rare in Cambrian and Ordovician rocks because they were active swimmers and could generally escape from the underwater avalanches.
In the high mountains, where there are large falls of snow, there can also be avalanches.
Perhaps this particular act of civil disobedience is seen as a radical, terroristic harbinger of waves of violence to come, as rabid gun-toters react, badly, to the intended avalanche of regulations and taxes that Congress is working on. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » We Have Clearly Run Out of Real Law Enforcement Challenges
Its hidden aggression avalanches the player, so he has to use his best skill and aptitude.
Barry had climbed the couloir once before, in 1982, back when he admits he didn't know all that much about avalanche conditions. A Nature for the Great Outdoors
After half an hour of the heaviest cannonade ever known, Wellington's faithful troops were threatened by an avalanche of cavalry, and promptly fell into the "chequer" disposition previously arranged for the most exposed division, that of Alten. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
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.
Most of the avalanches have been triggered by skiers and boarders, say officials. Times, Sunday Times
Dozens of icefalls (ice avalanches) now occur per day all around us.
The survivors of the avalanche included 12 Britons. It also describes the early inhabitants of Britain:the ancient Britons. Brit is informal and can sound negative. Britisher is now very old-fashioned.
That happy-go-lucky ethos of boarders remains so strong that some of its most talented stars refused to take part in these Olympics, claiming their creativity and freedom were threatened by an avalanche of rules.
Suddenly there was an avalanche of theories designed to explain the rise in crime that had previously been denied.
Along the storms' eastward track, avalanches killed two people on Saturday in Utah, authorities said.
In response to a request for proposals for about 200 megawatts, Xcel got avalanched by bids for over six gigawatts. Anne Butterfield: The Plunging Cost of Renewables and Boulder's Energy Future
Cannon-like, highly explosive eruptions in January and March 1974 threw out large quantities of ash as a column into the atmosphere, and as avalanches flowing down the cone's sides.
What made the goal tastier is that it gave the Avalanche USATODAY.com - Yelle's overtime goal lifts Avalanche past Blues
Find a simple wind that sails your mind and body to Denver, Colorado; don't even think about the avalanches of mountain snow.
He was afraid the storm would cause a mudslide, or an avalanche. DESPERADOES
News of the freebie started a credibility slide of avalanche proportions.
The avalanche risk in the area is considerable. Times, Sunday Times
I know from experience that avalanches occur swiftly and cruelly, and our relief when the ground eventually levelled out soon dissipated in a struggle through waist deep snowdrifts.
the program brought an avalanche of mail
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.
A pile of books avalanched out of the shelf.
We pushed the door open and we were almost buried in an avalanche of ancient computer monitors, toasters, electric jugs and bicycle parts.
City's avalanche of goals has drawn the eye away from a vulnerable back line. Times, Sunday Times
Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.
Strewn all about are huge avalanched boulders, like the play toys of giants.
But, nonetheless, witnessing this job done well is a marvel - avalanches of visual and audio information marshalled into concise entertainment for the benefit of the unappreciative viewer.
I wondered if it was for the skier killed in an avalanche the day before. Times, Sunday Times
The battle will ensure an avalanche of viewers hitting the phones. The Sun
With no help from the authorities, his life has 'avalanched' into despair. NDTV News - Top Stories
The snow had recently avalanched, so only surface hoar is thawing.
I'd like to ride some more international races such as the Avalanche cup and races at home like the Scottish, Nambs Nemba's midland series, and the Gold runs.
The quake struck close to the rumbling Mount Merapi, and soon after a large burst of hot clouds and debris avalanched two miles down its western flank, spreading fears of a major eruption.
He's unable to do either without triggering an avalanche of disasters. Times, Sunday Times
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Say, rather, "infinitesimal" - much like the snowflake that starts an avalanche. Do bloggers create the buzz?
This is usually attributed to objective dangers - unpredictable acts of God, such as avalanches, icefalls, rockfall, and horrid weather.
Now and then we came to rushing mountain - torrents bursting over the road; far away, ever and anon, we heard the roar of a _lauwine_ or avalanche; sometimes I looked out, and could see straight down below me a thousand feet into an abyss or on a headlong stream. Memoirs
It's like an electron avalanche, he says, that can flood up toward the ionosphere or slide earthward, depending on the electric field direction.
Finally, after weeks of walking, you will arrive at the foot of the mountains themselves – astonishing heights from which gigantic avalanches tumble earthwards in apparent slow motion, dwarfed by their surroundings. Motion Trek | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
AN avalanche swept a snowboarding champion to her death yesterday. The Sun
In an instant, an avalanche of electrons is rolling over the surface in a catastrophic flashover.
In the high mountains, where there are large falls of snow, there can also be avalanches.
The avalanche of incredulity, ridicule and scepticism that greeted anyone who came out as a "tweeter" in those early days is hard to imagine now, five years on. Twitter's five-year evolution from ridicule to dissidents' tool
His nervousness escalated into an avalanche of malapropisms. Times, Sunday Times
Then a small irritation will spark an avalanche of frustration and action. Times, Sunday Times
She rolled it out and took it in over one rail and the other; and at times, nose thrown skyward, sitting down on her heel, she avalanched it aft. THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
That way you've got one more thing in your favor if you get avalanched.
The new elements were the avalanche of publicity and the recordings permanently documenting many of the performances. Times, Sunday Times
To Angus it looked as though the North slope of the ridge was ready to crumble and avalanche into the corrie below.
Camp 1 was avalanched at 5 a.m.
A hunt for the experienced climber began in hours but stopped for eight months amid avalanche fears. The Sun
A man and a woman have died and another man was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition after an avalanche in the Highlands. Times, Sunday Times
There are crevasses to fall into, rockfalls, avalanches, and severe weather, particularly the wind, on such a mountain.
But an avalanche of English-language pirated copies of the film is spreading across China.
Enver Lisin outraced the Avalanche defense to the puck and fed a pass to Jokinen for the goal on a wrist shot from the left circle and a 3-1 lead with 6: 41 to go. USATODAY.com
The chord progression itself sounds like a Dimmu Borgir outtake, which is very effective here, as it gives the lyrics room to breathe and take hold, rather than crash down like an avalanche; the listener has time to digest the themes and overlaid messages. Metal Underground .com
Here she faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, near-starvation and avalanches.
They were not quick enough to escape the sudden underwater avalanches during the Flood, and paid the price.
Why would anyone choose to build directly in the path of a potential avalanche?
They didn't spend long in there, possibly due to fear of sudden movements causing an avalanche.
Additionally, the grudging acceptance of the Welsh victory was subsumed beneath an avalanche of regurgitated nonsense on qualification from the previous week.
There is a high risk of avalanche in the area so people need to be especially careful. Times, Sunday Times
A million emotions avalanched them.
A hunt for the experienced climber began in hours but stopped for eight months amid avalanche fears. The Sun
Gibbons also heralds the area's vast reaches of avalanche lilies and white spires of beargrass flowers that flank the park's mountains and ridges. The Seattle Times
'Oh,' says the metaphysician, 'this is association: just so a strain of music reminds you of a fine passage in a book you have read, or a beautiful tone in a picture you have seen; just so the Ranz des Vaches bears the exile to the timber house, with shady leaves, corbelled and strut-supported, whose very weakness appeals to the avalanche that shakes an icicly beard in monition from the impeding crags.' The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
-- [MS.M. erased.] [454] In the greater part of Switzerland, the avalanches are known by the name of lauwine. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
I heard the tumble of the coals as they avalanched down into the smoldering pit.
Often the right stuff is buried under an avalanche of garbage.
They tended their fields and repaired the drainage ditches which had been destroyed by avalanches. Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
Just as long as you don't forget that, in the end, it's not lightning or rapids, avalanches or equipment, rockslides or icefalls that are going to get you.
There were also an avalanche of tributes from stars showbiz world. The Sun
Even scarier and more destructive than volcanic mudflows are pyroclastic flows or glowing avalanches.
The armoire hides the messy avalanche that schoolwork had become over the summer, but now the avalanche is eradicated and safely filed and labeled in our file box system. Archive 2007-09-01
Your companions, too, are safely domiciled inside their own caverns, to which your wearable anti-avalanche home plugs in instinctively with filamental tunnels. Archive 2007-11-01
The stands are slush and there's a risk of crowd avalanches. Times, Sunday Times
Most avalanche accidents occur on north- and east-facing slopes.
The walls drip, the shadows loom and the rumbling trains obligingly sound like an elemental avalanche. Times, Sunday Times
A pile of books avalanched out of the shelf.
An avalanche forecaster ferrets out a dangerous weakness in the snowpack with the shovel shear test.
Kristian Matsson has been avalanched with Bob Dylan comparisons, but his anecdotes and omnipresent observations of the natural world have more in common with the Joni Mitchell of S.X. Rosenstock: The Tallest Man on Earth: New Folk Grows Numinous
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.
We were the only team hit by the avalanche who all survived. The Sun
Solution: collaborate with Cemagref, the world leading institution in avalanche science. Glacier-Sailing with the Katabatic Winds
Right!" replied Dale; and a minute later he caught the rings of hemp thrown to him, and rapidly knotted the middle round Saxe, the end to his own waist; and as he knotted, _click, click! chip, chip_! went the ice-axe, deftly wielded by the guide, who with two or three blows broke through enough of the crust to make a secure footing while the ice flew splintering down the slope in miniature avalanches, with a peculiar metallic tinkling sound. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
We received an avalanche of letters in reply to our advertisement.
He's unable to do either without triggering an avalanche of disasters. Times, Sunday Times
An avalanche had dropped there; the barricade was the debris of the torn cliffs, their dust, their pebbles, their boulders. The Metal Monster
His own punches at times found a target, only to be rocked with an avalanche of blows in retaliation.
News of the freebie started a credibility slide of avalanche proportions.
Furthermore, the GJ-4 confocal probe uses an avalanche diode with high responsivity. Therefore, it can get better measuring signals from low-reflective surfaces.
The status in quo of Impulse Ground Penetrating Radar and the general principle of Avalanche Transistor are discussed then a new method for Avalanche simulation is given in this thesis.
The topography is rugged and complex, prone to rockfalls and avalanches.
An avalanche is a better metaphor, conveying the right mix of mass and momentum. Times, Sunday Times
During interglacial periods the steep, unstable U-shaped valley sides are subject to mass movements such as rock falls and large rock avalanches.
Icicles broke from seracs, pummeling him; cold water flowed down cracks, soaking him; avalanches forced him to squeeze against the face.
The most serious enemy of the mountain goat is snow, or more precisely avalanches.
If so, they were wrong, for there followed an avalanche of agreements bringing international law to centre stage. Times, Sunday Times
Then his entire head seemed to dissipate at once, to crumble with the slow-motion horror of an avalanche starting. THE KILL CLAUSE
Afterwards, even a moment's consideration will reveal an avalanche of plot holes, but it is a tribute to the film-makers that these are not recognized until after the end credits have rolled.
Earlier eruptions claimed 39 lives after lava flows and tremors caused deadly avalanches. Times, Sunday Times
When did the avalanche strike? Times, Sunday Times
But again, after the car rested a minute, the light, dry earth began to crack and crumble away from under the tires, rolling in a miniature avalanche down the steep declivity into the water. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
Meanwhile of those flats/houses secured under the 38% [& believe me they went for it] most are instantly divided into matchboard cells, so a 2 bed flat can fit six - eight lodgers in .... who invariably sub-sub let & as they are transient with their landlords elsewhere usually managed by agents councils & tenants [LBTH] are subjected to an avalanche of abuses too obvious to itemise. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
The decision to provide avalanche control in Flute Bowl, a short hike from the mountain's Peak or Harmony chairlifts, adds another 700 acres of unpisted snow for expert skiers.
Then, way up on the mountain, a little avalanche fell.
As loose as dry sand, such crystals often constitute the critical weak layer of a slab avalanche.
The chancellor unleashed an avalanche of cash upon services that were unreformed. Times, Sunday Times
We lack quantitative sedimentological and structural data on the Somma-Vesuvius debris avalanches, but we can make some interpretations regarding their rheology.
Four climbers had 'a lucky escape' when they were avalanched while climbing.
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The chain of living creatures maintains an overall balance despite the constant impact of extinctions, changes of habitat, disease and disaster, that conspire to create local avalanches.
Although it was possible that the boys had triggered the slide on their way down - perhaps by glissading down the slope - the avalanche had probably released on their way up.
The core of the intelligence business is not gathering information but collating it: finding meaningful patterns in an unending avalanche of data.
The materials were loose and there were avalanches.
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.
An avalanche of new studies suggest that an amino acid called homocysteine (pronounced HO-mo-SIS-teen) plays a critical role in destroying our arteries - perhaps as large a role as smoking or cholesterol. The Heart Attackers
Eight people have died in the past few days after snow, avalanches and freezing temperatures wreaked havoc. Times, Sunday Times
If you're looking for an appropriate site, you'll want it to have sunshine, flat ground, and clean water nearby, plus protection from wind, avalanches, and rockfall.
A man and a woman have died and another man was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition after an avalanche in the Highlands. Times, Sunday Times
This has the destabilising effect of re-enacting the movements of a huge rockface, when shattered stone is unlocked by thawing, rivulets of snow-melt, the collapse of seracs, or the downrush of avalanches.
Be careful out there, we were avalanched yesterday, and now I'm out of commission for at least a month with a sprained or broken ankle.
When a rapid thaw set in, many people had narrow escapes when melting snow slid off roofs on to pavements in small avalanches. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever doubts the professor may have had were swept away in what he called an "avalanche of congratulations". The Guardian World News
The blast caused an avalanche of rocks and dust, definitely stopping the pursuit.
There's an avalanche of entrepreneurship coming our way so we need to prepare our young people. Times, Sunday Times
But once the messages descend I remain overwhelmed by the avalanche of letters, information, bulletins and, of course, junk email.
Here and there were scattered roots recently uptorn, branches broken off, huge stones reduced to powder, as if an avalanche had rushed down this flank of the mountain. The Master of the World
Often, the government does nothing until it is avalanched with negative press coverage.
Last night the death toll continued to mount at base camp - a virtual tent city that was engulfed by avalanches just before noon local time. The Sun
We all know during festive seasons such as Christmas the children will be deluged by an avalanche of toys.
Various defence strategies are commonly employed to protect people from avalanches.
The survivors of the avalanche included 12 Britons. It also describes the early inhabitants of Britain:the ancient Britons. Brit is informal and can sound negative. Britisher is now very old-fashioned.
No one could emerge from that avalanche alive, unless one believed that man could rise from the dead.
It also caused an avalanche on the world's highest mountain. The Sun
This realization of a strongly correlated quantum gas has triggered an avalanche of work at the interface between atomic physics and condensed matter physics, with the prospect of quantum simulators for elusive phenomena ranging from antiferromagnetism to high Tc superconductivity. Theodor W. Hänsch - Autobiography
The divorce statistics are still pending but the avalanche certainly succeeds. Times, Sunday Times
Escaping camel hawkers and un-digging my high heels from small avalanches of sand, I arrived at last at Pyramid Number Two -- the tomb of Khafre -- where a long narrow tunnel slanted into its earthen belly, lined with a metal ladder which served -- I understood, as I peered below -- as a staircase. Karin Badt: Christmas in Cairo: A 48 Hour Story
Behind all this, walls of square-cut ice rose in cracked columns that avalanched regularly, sometimes bringing down a 30m-wide face.
The rough road that the Russian invaders had cut, following the camel path of the Silk Road, was all but gone - covered by rockslides or swept away by floods and avalanches.
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Other songs branch off down these individual tributaries: ‘High on the Mountain of Love’ is an avalanche of sound; unwieldy and arrhythmic, the only thing certain about it is its persistent, all-encompassing forward momentum.
There can be too much of a good thing, however - burn areas with heavier snow packs are susceptible to avalanche.
Widespread deforestation to make way for ski slopes has eroded topsoil, increasing the incidence of avalanches.
Most of the avalanches have been triggered by skiers and boarders, say officials. Times, Sunday Times
Just last month, a Post editorial on the Norway massacres sparked what the newspaper itself called an "avalanche" of critical comments and letters condemning the paper for what readers saw as having offered justification for the terrorism. Bradley Burston: A Rightist Push Scores Against Press Freedom in Israel
The Avalanche Ale is a perfectly serviceable beer, full-bodied and tasty, but the others failed to impress.
The avalanche struck the ski resort in the late afternoon.
Effective techniques of fighting the enemy in the mountains are induced rockfalls, avalanches, glacier movements and mudslides.
As the Colorado Avalanche, the former Nordiques have one of the game's most star-studded line-ups and are a perennial power.
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.
A rescue effort was finally mounted at 8pm, hours after the avalanche hit. Times, Sunday Times
The entire northern flank of the mountain collapses and falls as an avalanche lowering the height of the mountain by 1,500 feet.
The sun was hot by now, the wind had become brisk, and the melting edges sent mini-avalanches of gravel raining down.
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.
Matt Duchene, the 18-year-old long-term houseguest of Avalanche captain Adam Foote and his wife, Jennifer, has informally taken over as an occasional tutor for the Foote sons, Callan, Vail Daily - Top Stories
But the cost of the equipment they need, such as ropes, flares and the transmitters that detect the position of avalanche victims, is spiralling beyond the teams' ability to raise cash.

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