Sentence examples for sink hole from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'sink hole' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a hole or depression in the ground caused by erosion or the collapse of an underground cavern. For example: "The car suddenly fell into a sink hole that opened up in the middle of the road."

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sink hole

noun

A depression in the land formed from the collapse or erosion of the underlying rock or soil.

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A sink hole.

I had stepped into a sink hole.

Extracting one's boot from a marl sink hole requires technique.

Drive-by Truckers make that very clear (the clue's in the title, Sink Hole).

11.29am GMT Just when it seemed the storm news was flagging, a giant sink hole opens up in Hemel Hempstead.

In its guts are an active river with a deep sink hole, underground waterfalls and huge chambers.

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The terrain is now a moonscape of gaping sink holes and yawning fault lines that will turn into more sink holes.

Explore a frozen world of crevasses and sink holes, jagged ridges and ice walls.

Last summer, in Slovenia, he walked in woods where limestone sink holes had been used "as mass execution or body-disposal sites at end of the Second World War".

Centralia sits on one of the largest coal reserves in the world, but the once-lively and industrial town is dying out slowly due to sulphurous fumes and sink holes appearing in weakened roads.

But as temperatures rise, the fish tend to congregate in cooler eddies and sink holes, where they are so easy to catch that fishing is no longer fun for purists like Mr. McFadden.

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