How to Use rockfall in a Sentence

rockfall

noun

• Sleep buries me like a rockfall tumbling down the cliff of a highway.
  — Rebecca Grossman-Kahn, STAT, 10 Mar. 2022
• The trail was closed because of rockfall and landslides from the winter storms.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
• The park closed Northside Drive for 24 hours in response, though no one was harmed during the rockfall.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The park estimated enough debris came from the rockfall to fill the bed of a pickup.
  — NBC News, 14 Aug. 2019
• The rockfall showered visitors with rocks, branches and a plume of dust and sand.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2019
• The last rockfall that resulted in a death on Going-to-the-Sun road was in 1996, the Tribune reported.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• As the storm continued, a rockfall shut down one of the entrances to Yosemite National Park.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• The park said at least 30 climbers were on the formation Wednesday during the deadly rockfall.
  — Yelena Dzhanova, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2017
• The last fatal injury from rockfall on the Going-to-the-Sun Road was in 1996 when a vehicle was struck, according to the park.
  — Faith Karimi and Laura James, CNN, 14 Aug. 2019
• To the north, Highway 1 was closed near Big Sur as officials assessed rockfall and debris that came down with the storm.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• Other area climbers witnessed the rockfall and the avalanche, park authorities said in the release.
  — Claudia Dominguez, CNN, 30 May 2022
• The sample was collected on the Hive beach, Burton Bradstock, close to the site of a fatal rockfall that happened in 2012.
  — Sophie Haigney, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The closure comes days after a massive rockfall was recorded at Yosemite.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The park service repeatedly closed parts of the road last summer amid heavy rains, rockfall and mudslides.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
• When he was reported missing, a helicopter crew found his body in the rockfall.
  — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 14 July 2017
• Jonathan Shafer, a Zion National Park spokesperson, said no one was injured in the rockfall, and no shuttles were damaged.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 May 2022
• But after a climber was killed in a rockfall where that group had camped last week, Krasnitskiy’s group planned to make a quicker ascent and skip that site, and to camp near the summit.
  — NBC News, 7 June 2019
• Many of the accidents, the report noted, were preventable, but around 10 percent came from rockfalls.
  — National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2017
• The closure was prompted by scheduled blasting that sent 8,000 cubic yards of rockfall crashing down the side of the mountain and onto the roadway.
  — Kelsey Hammon, The Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• Yosemite documents an average of more than 80 rockfalls a year, but injuries from such events are rare.
  — Matthew Haag and Matt Stevens, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• At the spots where paths merge or branch off, the ground looks a miniaturized mountain rockfall, progressing from fist-size rocks to golf-ball stones to pebbles and gravel.
  — Curbed, 13 Nov. 2022
• Heavy mudflow and rockfall have littered the roadway, which maintenance crews will work to remove once the heavy rain subsides.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Rocks, dirt and two giant boulders destroyed the full width of the road in a rockfall on May 24, leaving an 8-foot trench across both lanes and making the section impassable.
  — The Denver Post, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
• The anecdotal increase in rockfall in the mountain range comes as warmer temperatures take their toll on glaciers, which long covered the Tetons.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
• The park estimated the rocks were between fist-sized and 12 inches in diameter with enough debris from the rockfall to fill the bed of a pickup truck.
  — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
• By spring, 2019, landslides and rockfall had further damaged the trail, requiring more work to clear and stabilize it.
  — oregonlive.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• In the first 24 hours after the quake, rescuers freed hundreds of people who were trapped in cars in between rockfalls on the highway and stranded on mountain ledges in rock quarries.
  — Siyi Zhao Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• This will allow staff to clear any remaining rockfall, according to the park service.
  — Michael Salerno, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• Sulfur dioxide, rockfalls and explosions are the main hazards, the agency says.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
• The archeologists suspect the woman’s head had been crushed — possibly by rockfall — after her death.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024