How to Use avalanche in a Sentence

avalanche

1 of 2 noun
  • He was buried by an avalanche.
  • Did any skiers survive the avalanche?
    — Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
  • What is avalanche-prone terrain?
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Now that the draft is done, an avalanche of grades will follow.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • My inbox is an avalanche of love from folks who agree with the piece.
    — Cameron Smith | [email protected], al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Three were able to escape the avalanche, but two skiers were found dead.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Where are avalanche risks in Idaho?
    — Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 21 Feb. 2026
  • His downfall was as sudden as an avalanche.
    — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • The whole mountain rumbles when an avalanche rolls off it.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The huts the group stayed in before the avalanche were also new.
    — Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Their ski and boot tracks were spotted leading to a small slab avalanche.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
  • Then the autograph avalanche was on.
    — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Europe has been hit by a string of avalanches this winter.
    — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Edelman wakes up after this exchange to an avalanche of hate.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • An avalanche of turnovers preceded a rush to ready young players.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The fatal avalanche came after days of heavy mountain snow late last week.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2026
  • His curly black locks tumble down onto his shoulders like an avalanche.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The kitchen, the garage, the pantry, the laundry room, each brought its own avalanche of challenges.
    — Marni Jameson, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Drury, sitting at his stall, was overcome by an avalanche of emotions.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The ground constantly moves and cracks around you, and avalanches are the norm.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023
  • This time of year, the ads and appeals arrive in an avalanche in my email inbox.
    — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Six of those skiers — one of the guides and five of the clients — survived the avalanche and were rescued.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 22 Feb. 2026
  • That dress looks like a snowfall in the Alps, an avalanche not seen by human eyes.
    — Concita De Gregorio, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
  • The biggest concern right now is wet avalanches.
    — Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Most of the avalanches that are breaking are large enough to bury a car or break timber.
    — Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • His friend skied down first and watched as the avalanche was triggered and overtook Burks.
    — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The cloud’s electric field would push the positron backward close to where the avalanche began.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • Brady, who’s known to cover all his bases, brought pages and pages of notes and an avalanche of facts that dulled the show.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Three separate avalanches last month killed eight skiers.
    — CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Consider using a mail holder to keep your avalanche of lids at bay.
    — Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 21 Apr. 2023

avalanche

2 of 2 verb
  • Celebrities have avalanched their way back to America’s most famous ski area, swathed in their fuzzy coats and après ski chic looks.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Let’s assume some calamity like that might avalanche its way into North Texas sometime this winter.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Licht got avalanched for dealing third-round and fourth-round picks in 2016 to move into the second round to draft a kicker.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Conspiracy mogul Alex Jones’s gruff voice avalanched out of the speakers and declared war on globalists and labeled Hillary Clinton a criminal who needed to be locked away.
    — Longreads, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Early pioneers of universality, led by the physicist Leo Kadanoff, discovered that systems as different as avalanching sand piles and magnetizing metals all operate on multiple scales.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 July 2019

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