How to Use sinkhole in a Sentence

sinkhole

noun
  • The sinkhole looked like a black wound in a green field.
    Allison Keeley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The state has seen a spate of sinkholes due to the recent rains.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The sinkhole is the 30th to be found in China’s Leye County.
    Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • The sinkhole did not pose a threat to the county roadway or homes.
    Pilar Arias, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • About 5 miles off the route, this 140-foot deep sinkhole is the largest single chamber cave in the state.
    Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • This sinkhole is a giant among dozens of pockmarks the researchers found on the seafloor.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Meeker said the sinkhole is over a sewer line where there was a leak.
    Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2023
  • Stay away from sinkholes and cracks — and wear a good pair of shoes and long pants that cover your legs.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • While on the phone, Stratton tells her husband, Michael, there is a sinkhole where the pool deck should be.
    Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 29 June 2021
  • Crews are on the scene at East Eighth & Walnut streets working to repair the sinkhole.
    Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 24 May 2022
  • Video from OnScene TV showed a large sinkhole in the traffic lanes.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Water had flooded the sinkhole to around halfway up the doors.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • The sinkhole formed at around 10 a.m. at Gordon Moore Park in Alton.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 27 June 2024
  • Aerial footage of the area showed what appeared to be a massive sinkhole.
    Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 16 July 2021
  • This is not the first sinkhole to appear in Chefornak in recent years.
    Author: Greg Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2021
  • At one point, an 80-foot-wide sinkhole formed on the construction site.
    New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • In January, rains caused a sinkhole in the parking lot, forcing the zoo to shut down for 34 days.
    Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Surveillance video from the City of Alton shows the moment the sinkhole opens and swallows a light pole on the field in a cloud of dust.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 27 June 2024
  • Pennington likened the woods around the area to a jungle, with cliff beds, sinkholes, caves and culverts.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Now, the road and the police department are directly above the sinkhole area.
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
  • At the bottom of a sinkhole, ancient trees stretch nearly 130 feet high.
    Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • The discovery of the latest sinkhole is not an anomaly.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 17 May 2022
  • Just this week, video captured a New York City van falling into a sinkhole in the Bronx.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • About 20 percent of the world's landmass is made of karst landscapes, with China boasting the largest sinkhole in the world.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2022
  • The sinkhole was a result of a crack in the storm drain beneath the roadway, according to Murphy.
    Katelyn Keenehan, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Still, what’s left behind is a 20-30 ft sinkhole that washed out both southbound road lanes.
    Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Researchers will aim for the 400-foot-deep bottom of an ocean sinkhole named Green Banana.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2020
  • The vehicle was upside down in the sinkhole, wheels facing toward the sky.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Hailing from Michigan, the 19-year-old plays Izzy Harris, a teen whose mom and brother fall through the sinkhole.
    Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Zhang Yuanhai was part of a team that explored an even larger sinkhole found in Guangxi five years ago.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022

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