(n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.
(n.) The land which slips down.
Example Sentences:
(1) A similar rally in 2007 is widely credited with spurring on Malaysia's opposition movement, which won a landslide victory in the 2008 elections.
(2) She won a landslide victory when she ran for parliament in 2005, the youngest person to be elected, only to be kicked out after she compared the house to a "stable or zoo" in a TV interview.
(3) The former military ruler won the key prize of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, but at one point his lead was cut to 500,000 votes after landslide victories for Jonathan in his southern Delta homeland.
(4) We have argued for our positive plans and, three years after the Liberals came to power in a landslide, they have lost their mandate,” Shorten told the party faithful assembled at the Moonee Ponds racecourse.
(5) In Solomon Islands, there were reports of landslides and damage to houses in Temotu, Makira and Malaita, with bridges washed away in the latter.
(6) Their current Westminster tally is strikingly close, too, to the 45% of the constituency vote that gave Alex Salmond his great Holyrood landslide in 2011, and indeed to the 44% who tell ICM in Friday’s survey that they would plump for the nationalists if there were a fresh ballot for their local Holyrood seat.
(7) A spokesman for the Met Office said: "We have had such heavy and persistent rainfall over the last few days and weeks and that there is a danger of landslides and rockfall along the coast, even on coastal paths.
(8) Salmond's spokesmen did not deny that the first minister also discussed the significant political support for the SNP from the Sun and News of the World's Scottish editions in the run up to Salmond's landslide victory in the Holyrood elections in May.
(9) Diane James offers crumbling Ukip a safe pair of hands Read more James said she had not yet formalised her nomination as leader, meaning that she had never formally taken over from her predecessor, Nigel Farage, following her landslide election on 16 September.
(10) The much anticipated landslide for Steve McQueen's powerful slavery drama 12 Years A Slave did not materialise, although it gained a single and respectfully prominent win as best film (drama).
(11) Last year, more than 6,000 people were killed as floods and landslides swept through Uttarakhand during the monsoon season.
(12) Narendra Modi , the Hindu nationalist politician who won power in India in May in a landslide election, arrives in New York on Friday for a gruelling schedule of more than 50 speeches, rallies, interviews, meetings and business breakfasts aimed at rebooting an often troubled relationship with the US.
(13) He won the leadership with a bigger landslide than Blair acheived 21 years ago, swept to office by a tide of Corbynmania that has dumfounded everyone at Westminster.
(14) Labour is facing a desperate battle to stop a Scottish National party landslide after a poll showed the SNP had a clear but weaker lead across Labour constituencies in Scotland .
(15) Opinion polls predict a landslide victory for Mahmoud Jibril, the tribal figurehead and former rebel prime minister, who is an ally of Hiftar and living in self-imposed exile in Abu Dhabi.
(16) The rains caused a landslide this month that covered an entire village near Kathmandu, killing 156 people.
(17) 2 December – Rocinha A pregnant woman has to be rescued from a landslide in the Trampolim neighbourhood of Rocinha after a thunderstorm hits our community.
(18) That will seem incredible to some in England, but to those of us who paid close attention to Alex Salmond’s 2011 landslide at Holyrood , it would merely be the next chapter in the political transformation of a nation.” He added: “It is becoming clear that the independence referendum has reset all the dials.
(19) Its keynote speaker will be Alex Salmond , the first minister and Scottish National party leader whose landslide victory two years ago in the Scottish parliament elections delivered the referendum that had been, until now, an 80-year-old dream for his party.
(20) By midday on Monday, workers had managed to clear landslides from one lane of the main highway connecting Sikkim with the rest of India , and an initial convoy of 75 paramilitaries had started moving toward Mangan, the village closest to the quake's epicentre, officials said.
Slump
Definition:
(n.) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
(v. t.) To lump; to throw into a mess.
(v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.
(n.) A boggy place.
(n.) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
(2) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(3) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
(4) If the government reduces its spending at the same time, this will make the slump worse, not better.
(5) Household spending has slumped to its lowest rate in nearly two years, underlining the sluggishness of Britain's economy.
(6) The construction of Fab 42 was halted in 2014 , following a slump in PC sales, but analysts don’t believe Trump is the reason it’s been restarted.
(7) A leading academic, Prof Robert Bea, from the engineering faculty at the University of California in Berkeley, who made a special study of the Deepwater Horizon accident , has raised new concerns that the recent slump in oil prices could compromise safety across the industry as oil producers strive to cut costs.
(8) The schemes will be scrutinised for evidence that the government has accepted criticism that it is not acting fast or hard enough to reverse the continuing slump in the economy, with ministers braced for further bad news on jobs and investment over the summer.
(9) Branson also has a stake in Virgin Money, which has suffered a 40% slump in its shares since the referendum.
(10) The austerity drive and recession meant some big construction projects being shelved, while in many regions housing market activity slumped.
(11) However, Leroy warned that a slump will hit the industry this year, with pan-European sales expected to fall 5%.
(12) House prices have slumped by 14.6% since last October after 12 consecutive months of falls, Nationwide Building Society said today.
(13) But Nel said that for Steenkamp to have fallen on to the rack, given she was found with her head slumped over the toilet, she would have had to have got up.
(14) Newspaper sales slumped in Spain during the financial crisis.
(15) Despite a near monopoly in many towns, HMV stores were seeing sales slump year after year, even at paper-thin margins.
(16) She looks at me, slumped and sweating at her kitchen table.
(17) Wetherspoon said it was trying to help those caught in the economic slump.
(18) The government has declared an end to the half-decade slump in housebuilding after cheap borrowing and the Help to Buy scheme prompted a 6% increase in the start of work on new homes in the three months to June.
(19) More than 8,000 jobs at Clinton Cards were on the line after the group became the latest casualty of the high street spending slump.
(20) A worse slump than expected means many more unemployed and thousands more homes repossessed.