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
• 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
• Rigaux started recording and captured video of the massive rockfall as entire swath of the cliff cascaded into the lake, raising a plume of water and dust.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
• Gediman said the slides were not an unusual occurrence in Yosemite, which sees about 80 rockfalls a year, but most do not cause injuries or deaths.
  — Dan Whitcomb, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024