Sentence examples for rain collapse from inspiring English sources

Deforested hillsides, waterlogged after days of rain, collapse in rivers of mud, burying whole villages.

Then heavy rain collapsed a section of roof, the site was closed, reopened a while later, then closed again.

Two women died in Hidalgo when heavy rain collapsed their house's roof.

Hundreds of people died here two weeks ago when the seven-story-high mountain, loosened by monsoon rains, collapsed on their shantytown.

Light rain had collapsed it in three places and took a swath of it down about 50 yards.

Its walls shed lead paint, rain seeps through collapsing ceilings, and cockroaches and rats scuttle across its buckled floors.

"Heavy rains and a collapse of a mountain are natural disasters, but this wasn't a natural disaster, this was man-made," Yi said.

The positions occupied by the Australians had been badly damaged by the Chinese assaults and bombardments in May and June, and recent rain had also collapsed some trenches and weakened many of the wire obstacles.

It was an uncanny mistake, for Max Ernst (1891-1976) wan an early 20th-century modernist who made one of the most powerful antiwar paintings, "Europe After the Rain," (1940-42), abouthehe collapse of European culture during World War II.

In Looe, Cornwall, torrential overnight rain caused the partial collapse of a house, converted into flats.

Rain on snow "can collapse their snow caves where they raise their young," she says.