(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.
Torrent
Definition:
(n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
(n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.
(n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(2) Many correspondents joined in a torrent of condemnation on Twitter.
(3) It sits on two slender cables that stretch across the torrent 10 metres below.
(4) BT and Sky have now implemented the latest load of changes, preventing direct access for their subscribers (although the blocks are easily circumvented by users with a VPN), but BT has gone one step further and blocked access to other torrent sites as well.
(5) There was this thing called the Lima Paris Action Agenda where hundreds of businesses and thousands of regions and cities made promises to cut emissions that streamed into my email inbox in a torrent.
(6) He said many of the businesses in the old town centre had fared better than they had feared, but some had been flooded and that on one street by the church the water was flowing "like a torrent, 18 inches high".
(7) One resident in nearby Walsden was swept along about 15 metres by the torrent.
(8) In fact, no UK ISP has ever blocked a private torrent site before.” Barack Obama’s support for net neutrality sets precedent for the rest of the world • The headline, subheading and caption on this article were amended on 28 November.
(9) After entering PayPal or credit card details the user is given a Torrent file.
(10) The Pakistani Taliban have reacted to the torrent of negative media coverage after their attempt to assassinate a 14-year-old schoolgirl by threatening journalists.
(11) North Korea has in recent weeks conducted a string of artillery drills and missile tests, and has unleashed a torrent of racist and sexist rhetoric against the leaders of the US and South Korea.
(12) A graduate of Syracuse University, he was coming towards the end of a coast-to-coast cycle ride across America which he was making with his friend Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent.
(13) Rodriguez-Torrent escaped injury, but their host was struck by a pellet that entered her naval cavity and transversed her brain, lodging at the back of her skull.
(14) A further two people have died in flooding in eastern Romania, including a man who was ripped from his bicycle by a torrent of water in the eastern village of Ruginesti.
(15) The clumsy attempt to smear Navalny provoked a torrent of scorn online from his supporters.
(16) ‘Please look again’: a torrent of mysterious evidence makes its way to Lathierial Boyd Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boyd had an alibi in a club shooting.
(17) The retinal organisation of a cyprinid fish, Crossocheilus latius latius Hamilton, which inhabits the sub-Himalayan torrents of Sikkim, India, has been studied by light microscopy.
(18) Again, it looks simple, but in his delivery, in its immediacy and its signalling of the torrent of rhymes that are about to come, it’s one of the greatest opening couplets in the whole of hip-hop, and it still reverberates through global culture as such.
(19) It is all too easy to feel defeated by the sheer scale of the blurred torrent of information unleashed on the world.
(20) Speaking to the Guardian via telephone he said that he had left the country after the coup attempt last Friday because he started to receive a torrent of violent threats via social media, including threats of rape and death threats.