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landslide
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Landslide is a first-person narrative novel written by English author Desmond Bagley , and was first published in 1967.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a landslide victory (= a win by a very large amount in an election ) ▪ No one had anticipated such a landslide victory. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE republican ▪ The next step was the Republican congressional ...
Usage examples of landslide.
He moved with the lumbering inevitability of a landslide, but as far as I could tell his only real qualifications seemed to be arms the size of axletrees and enough scar tissue to deaden the impact of a piled river.
Destructive earthquake, accompanied by great landslides in the mountains and eruptions of water and mud in the region of northern Luzon which comprises the Provinces of the Ilocos, of Cagayan, and the Cordillera Central.
It was occurring to me that this man might be able to save me a lot of reading with a nice quick lesson on faults and the landslides they can trigger.
Even if the storms cause floods or landslides, beneath the movement of a little topsoil, the shape of the land and the contour of it remains the same.
Mattie Ruth won in a landslide and the Benedicts moved their act to Washington.
The one with the clacks tube was already dropping it and reaching for a sword, but Jackrum was bearing down on him like a landslide.
The basic lumpy mountain was then cut and shaped with fusors and carefully triggered landslides, filled, planted, landscaped, and finally frosted with snow and even a small glacier near the summit.
Already great arching faults had opened up, and immense landslides, tens of kilometers wide, began to collapse the steep walls.
In North and South America, across thousands of kilometers, faults gaped and landslides crashed, as the shocked ground shuddered.
Even though the fires would burn themselves out, the roads across the Sierra would be permanently blocked by many fallen trees and by landslides and washouts upon the denuded slopes.
Everything to the east, across the Sierra Nevada, would be completely blocked by fallen trees and landslides, and the roads to the north would probably be the same.
They had encountered only a few minor washouts and landslides on the highway to Los Angeles, nothing that the jeep could not negotiate in four-wheel drive.
Little spills of red-beige sand lay on the sidewalk here and there, a reminder of the landslides that sometimes closed PCH as the unstable hillsides eroded, their substance trying to complete its journey from the Santa Monica mountains to the sea.
Another problem is, of course, that dust storms do tend to accumulate in the Canyon more than on the ordinary surface, and there are landslides now and then, but heavens, we don worry about that.
We know where the faults are and where the landslides are likely to occur and no one digs in there.