Synonym: roll down. Similar words: nonchalance, carte blanche, nonchalant, balance, balanced, on balance, balance of, melancholy. Meaning: ['ævəlɑːnʃ] n. 1. a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain 2. a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things. v. gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow.
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31) Logan said, referring to the Colorado Avalanche star whose $ 21-million contract upped the ante for Kariya.
32) The original station in the open was destroyed by an avalanche with the loss of thirty-five lives in 1964.
33) But as Ian goes back to comply Koquillion uses his jewelled weapon to cause an avalanche, sealing up the cave.
34) Whatever it was precipitated an avalanche of other objects which thundered down around him as Charles fell sprawling to the ground.
35) It is thought that the avalanche was started by a small rock-fall on the higher slopes.
36) For the lawyer and the judge, a driving force at all times has been the avalanche of precedents.
37) Often the right stuff is buried under an avalanche of garbage.
38) If you can solve them, an avalanche of new possibilities is set in motion.
39) According to Dawes, an untrained Parametric Avalanche can balance an inverted pendulum on the first try.
40) Lasagna; an avalanche of white sauce tearing down the glen.
41) The Avalanche had a five-minute power play but the Bruins did a fine job killing it off, allowing just three shots.
42) At first, the night watchman thought it was an avalanche.
43) For mountaineers, there's a Lightweight Texaport jacket called the Avalanche and three microfibre jackets for hill walking or climbing..
44) But she hadn't skied into a crevice, nor had she been caught in an avalanche while ice climbing.
45) But the controversy released an avalanche of words and raised issues that are still being discussed by academics and journalists.
46) The avalanche effects of employing automatic control in the production of goods were not all obvious.
47) News of the freebie started a credibility slide of avalanche proportions.
48) He was about a third of the way up -- 200 feet off the canyon floor -- when an avalanche began.
49) A milestone on the way was the onset at Pirelli in the summer of 1968 of an avalanche of wildcat strikes.
50) When the school bus pulled up, there was the usual avalanche of nine children, and then a pause.
51) The Bruins committed myriad mistakes and the Avalanche grabbed their 3-0 lead on only nine shots.
52) Neighborbood filling stations, laundries, and print shops suddenly find themselves facing an avalanche of rules and reporting requirements.
53) The avalanche from the hill overlooking Station Road, Deganwy, left a trail of destruction at the rear of the houses.
54) Watching the television for mindless comfort, trying to blot out loneliness with an avalanche of distraction.
55) The other three care providers brought to my bedside the avalanche of medications I was taking every four hours.
56) In such a case,[www.Sentencedict.com] his reaction is simply a desire to avoid your postal avalanche.
57) Once an avalanche of bills has you buried, it seems impossible to dig your way out again.
58) Backcountry skiers head for the hills with their shovels and avalanche beepers.
59) This no-fat attitude worries me, because the avalanche of fat-free foods makes their goal nearly achievable.
60) The trail follows the river most of the way to Avalanche Lake.
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