Sentence examples for ground was sinking from inspiring English sources

GPS surveys of ground deformation show that after an initial period during which the ground was sinking up to 4 centimeters per day, subsidence has tapered off to just several centimeters per year.

And the very ground was sinking.

Design for one abruptly halted in 2013 when engineers found the ground was sinking at an alarming pace — the result of farmers pumping groundwater to irrigate.

They went to towns like Huron, Stratford and Terra Bella, places where the ground was sinking, taps had gone dry and crops had turned brown.

Worse, the ground is sinking in Tidewater, as Hampton Roads is also known.

In parts of the Central Valley, the ground is sinking — by more than a foot a year in some places — as the empty aquifer beneath it collapses.

Farmers still rely on flood irrigation, pumping out so much water the ground is sinking in some parts of the country.

While we look, we listen to a chant, which is, in fact, a recording of the artist reciting into a fan the words "all other ground is sinking sand". The work is suspended between sexuality and religion, stillness and movement, time captured and time lost.

Sea level is rising and the ground is sinking, both of which threaten to drown the marshes.

Beneath this small farm town at the end of what's left of the Kings River, the ground is sinking.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — In parts of Alaska, the ground is sinking so much that trees are growing almost horizontally.