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
• Or later learn that the crack in the kitchen wall is due to a sinkhole.
  — Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 9 June 2020
• 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
• The daycare has had to close multiple times due to the threat of the sinkhole, Hughes said.
  — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2019
• 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
• The neighbors don’t stop by anymore — not since my husband rigged our garage to look like a sinkhole had opened up in the ground, and Mrs. Hewitt’s cat disappeared into the hedge in panic.
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
• Crews drilled steel pillars deep into the ground, disturbing a fragile ecosystem of thousands of caverns and freshwater sinkholes known as cenotes.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024