What is "sinkholes"

Usage examples of "sinkholes".

Like Hooper, Fisher was reminded of the emptiness of O-Zone, the great spidery wilderness of hickories and oaks, the sinkholes and swellings of the plateau, and the distant glimpse of prairie.

Hiaasen again had occasion to write about Lennar Homes, when sinkholes full of trash opened up behind houses in a Miramar subdivision the company had built.

These sinkholes, Fisher said, were caused by the collapse of the limestone caverns that were so numerous in O-Zone.

Like sinkholes, which is where the upper levels of the earth slowly-or sometimes quickly-settle into the cavity the mines left far down below.

He could even see plumes of mist, the exhaled breath of hidden caves, rising straight and calm from the splintered landscape of karst and sinkholes below him.

She had shown the advance party what the sinkholes and quicksand looked like, and so far they had avoided serious mishap.