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How to pronounce avalanche in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms roll down
Type of come down, descend, fall, go down
Type Words
Type of slide
Has types lahar
Type Words
Type of occurrence, occurrent, happening, natural event


the program brought an avalanche of mail.

Examples of avalanche

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There hasn't been a tremendous avalanche of distressed deals hitting the market.
From the tennessean.com
Clamped atop his avalanche of dreads that night was a chunky pair of headphones.
From the washingtonpost.com
Each event changes the next one, so it becomes an avalanche of cause and effect.
From the theatlantic.com
He said the avalanche knocked out a ski lift at The Summit at Snoqualmie resort.
From the usatoday.com
Crystal Mountain is hosting an avalanche training class Saturday through Sunday.
From the thenewstribune.com
He recalled the time an avalanche came down and pushed the plow across the road.
From the thenewstribune.com
Bite into the tongue-searing crust and an avalanche of diced chicken spills out.
From the theatlantic.com
The goal is to reach people who do not know anything about the avalanche center.
From the sltrib.com
That, of course, set off an avalanche of criticism within the medical community.
From the newsobserver.com
More examples
  • A slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
  • Gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
  • A sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things; "the program brought an avalanche of mail"
  • An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, from either natural triggers or human activity. Typically occurring in mountainous terrain, an avalanche can mix air and water with the descending snow. ...
  • Final Fantasy VII, a console role-playing game developed by Square (now Square Enix) and originally released in 1997, features a large number of fictional characters in major and minor roles. ...
  • Avalanche is a 1978 American disaster film, directed by Corey Allen and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Forster, Mia Farrow and Jeanette Nolan. The taglines for the film included "A Winter Wonderland Becomes A Nightmare Of Destruction" and "Six Million Tons Of Icy Terror."
  • Avalanche is a Norwegian disco and dance duo group founded in 1984. The group is composed of Kjetil Ru00F8snes (born 30 March 1960, in Lu00F8renskog) and Kirsti Johansen (born 22 September 1963, in Kristiansand). From the late 1980s and during the 1990s the couple lived and worked in Germany and France. They currently live in Aurskog-Hu00F8land, Norway with their two children.
  • Avalanche is the third studio album by the Australian rock band British India, released through Shock Records on 30 April 2010.
  • "Avalanche" is the fifth episode of the Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. It was first broadcast in the UK on on ATV Midlands. It was written by Shane Rimmer and directed by Brian Burgess. ...