Sentence examples for wave of mud from inspiring English sources

A wave of mud slid from the nearby mountainside and buried everything just 150ft (50m) from her house.

When this temporary dam then burst under the weight of water, it sent a wave of mud, rock and tree trunks down into the city.

A resident with a home video camera captured a mudslide that pushed down Mount Wumyeon, which is popular among hikers, engulfing a road and tossing cars like toys in a furious wave of mud, water and gravel.

A pickup just north of the overturned U-Haul began to float off, sustained on a wave of mud as if it were a dinghy drifting away on the tide.

Two years ago, on Oct. 25, 2011, a torrential rainfall hit the Cinque Terre, drenching the olive groves, vineyards and lemon orchards, flooding the streams, shattering the tracery of stone walls that support the terraces and sending a wave of mud and rubble into the two northernmost villages, Monterosso and Vernazza.

Mauricio Martínez, a taxi driver, lost his wife, Lolita; their 14-year-old son, Benjamín; and his wife's two nieces, Emilia, 9, and Gabriela, 6; after a wave of mud cascaded from a hillside onto the family's home in San Martín, a suburb of San Salvador.

Local resident Peng Jinxin said people ran out of the way of the "huge waves" of mud.

Some of the roads, with savage, jagged rocks or rolling waves of mud that you could only negotiate slowly, had had me on the verge of tears.

Their strings of limbs form waves of mud, then angelic wings and, finally, spinning strands of DNA – a reference, perhaps, to the brutality embedded in humanity's genes.

A reconstruction of events by the Seattle Times reported harrowing details of a sleepy Saturday morning shattered by trees breaking and falling and thundering down the mountainside in waves of mud – a total of 7 million cubic yards, equal to 545 football fields.

Bandarban police chief Saiful Ahmed told the AFP news agency that most of the victims were asleep when huge waves of mud and debris buried them alive.