Sentence examples for sinkhole it from inspiring English sources

But some of the strongest park advocates insist that converting dilapidated warehouses into a sports mecca added up to powerful evidence that the tattered Hudson River waterfront could be something far better than the sinkhole it had become.

After several engineers, maintenance supervisors and geological experts examined the sinkhole, it was determined that it is actually a century-old railroad tunnel that collapsed decades ago.

February 20 , 2014I have an answer to this question from Tony Waltham, who literally wrote the book on sinkholes (it's called Sinkholes and Subsidence).

"It's a sinkhole, and it's very difficult to get out.

Net neutrality is a sinkhole because it means whatever anybody wants it to mean.

Rather than seeing it as an inconvenience, however, the people of Manchester have welcomed the sinkhole, making it an unlikely tourist attraction for locals.

Chrysler has also been a financial sinkhole since it was acquired two years ago by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.

The U.F.C. indeed had fallen into a financial sinkhole, but it also had cleaned itself up, far more a genuine sport than a gaudy burlesque.

The soil or sand over the limestone collapses into a sinkhole when it is no longer supported because of the cavity below.

A family has told how their daughter could have been "buried alive" if she had been in her car when a 30ft (9m) sinkhole swallowed it up.

That started out well, but then we, like the whole industry, fell into some giant sinkhole that it seemed no one saw coming.