Sentence examples for a big avalanche from inspiring English sources

(Dawson, it turns out, knew my aunt Meta, and he himself barely survived a big avalanche behind Aspen Highlands, in 1982).

However, it was not a big avalanche, Giavelli says - Porteous was unlucky to be thrown into a tree.

So it felt very natural and organic, rather than this big avalanche of notoriety".

The whole area had been hit by a much bigger avalanche and completely destroyed.

But Scrabble was a sleeper until 1952, when Jack Straus, the chairman of Macy's, who had discovered the game while on vacation, placed a big order, which triggered an avalanche.

There's a big emphasis, therefore, on mountaincraft - participants learn about avalanche awareness, glacier travel and crevasse rescue, for example.

That prompted an avalanche of redemptions from the Reserve Primary Fund, a multibillion-dollar money fund with a big stack of Lehman notes in its portfolio.

Fearful of an avalanche, regulators have secretly asked other banks to buy the debt at a premium, promising reimbursement and giving Ripplewood a big windfall.

Prediction: Flyers in six Western Conference No team had a bigger turn-around from last season to this one than the Colorado Avalanche.

There's a slip, an avalanche".

The Democratic convention was showered with an avalanche of big money, much of it coughed up by the same powerful interests (big oil, Hollywood, polluters, even tobacco) that were attacked by the nominees from the podium.