avalanche
IPA: ˈævʌɫæntʃ
noun
- A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
- A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
- (by extension) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
verb
- (intransitive) To descend like an avalanche.
- (transitive) To come down upon; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To propel downward like an avalanche.
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Examples of "avalanche" in Sentences
- The strong field accelerates the avalanche.
- Avalanche Gulch is to the right of the chimney.
- These are the salaries for the Colorado Avalanche.
- The Avalanche logo is in the center of the jersey.
- You've buried the humor in an avalanche of miscellany
- The avalanches would ultimately claim the lives the riders.
- However during the battle, Blithe was crippled by an avalanche.
- Stan blows up the henchmen and unwittingly creates an avalanche.
- The avalanche is the most underestimated danger in the mountains.
- The bed is integrated with the body, similar to the Chevrolet Avalanche.
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- When an avalanche is deemed likely, it detonates a mixture of oxygen and propane gas in its explosion chamber.
- Whatever doubts the professor may have had were swept away in what he called an "avalanche of congratulations".
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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