Sentence examples for land slippage from inspiring English sources
By the 16th century Conisbrough Castle was in a poor state of repair, and a royal survey carried out in 1537 and 1538 showed that the gates, bridge and parts of the walls had collapsed in a spectacular land slippage, and that one floor of the keep had also fallen in.
As the relatively young Pacific plate dives beneath the continental land mass, sudden slippages along the grinding rock faces breed swarms of earthquakes, big and small.
If those books were inspired by Donald Barthelme and George Saunders, "The Slippage" lands squarely in John Cheever territory, the literary subgenre of realistic suburban fiction, with chummy cocktail parties, injurious infidelities and broken real-estate dreams.
Moreover, Santa Maria has experienced considerable volcanic and land-surface disturbance, with large scale slippage events dumping significant parts of the island back into the sea at intervals [ 19].
However, this approach only targets longitudinal slippage during rotation on rigid ground and does not consider other slippage, such as the lateral slippage that occurs while moving straightly.
There will be considerable slippage".
How quickly came the slippage.
We'd expect some slippage.
There has been slippage since.
From then on, the slippage was steady.
