Sentence examples for rush of mud from inspiring English sources

"With the rush of mud came a hissing sound, then a gurgling, as if some giant beast below was spitting up," he writes, in a chapter titled "There's Something Down There... .. Later, there are "Wake up, Mr. Cullen.

One 10-year-old boy who survived the rush of mud by hanging on to a pipe was badly cut and had a dislocated hip.

One such event 5600 years ago spawned a rush of rock and mud that overran 550 square kilometers of surrounding land--including the current sites of the towns of Buckley and Enumclaw and the outskirts of Tacoma.

Best of all may be Andrew O'Hagan's contribution: "clart" and "clarty," for "mud" and "muddy" — which he follows up with a rush of other, lost mud-words: slub, plash, blash, and stabble, before including the Suffolk word "durg," for mud that has manure mixed into it, which is one of those words it's hard to know how the rest of us have managed without.

Marines and Afghan soldiers rushed to mud walls and returned fire.

In 1969, during another heavy rainstorm, a torrent of mud and boulders rushed down the canyon, destroying houses and narrowly bypassing the Horton family.

More than seven inches of rain overflowed the Tiber and Hudson river tributaries, rushing down Main Street and leaving behind a thick layer of mud.

Interaction of hot pyroclastic flows with snow and ice can generate highly mobile flows of mud and debris (called lahars) that may rush down valleys leading away from a volcano.

The behavior involves creation of a U-shaped plume of mud in the water column and then rushing through the plume to capture fish.

It was now almost dark and there was no firing from the enemy; ploughing across the final stretch of mud, I saw grenades bursting around the pillbox and a party of British rushed in from the other side.

"Of mud?" asks his friend.