sink-holes

They are the money sink-holes and they seldom actually contribute to the quality of the debate.

Happy Hour Roundup 2009

However, NASA is digging a tunnel under Chicago, and its causing a lot of sink-holes.

The President's Plan 2007

At the northern tip of Argostoli the sea poured down the sink-holes of the shore as ever, vanishing inexplicably into the bowels of the earth, and at Paliki the rock known as Kounopetra ceaselessly moved to its own unalterable rhythm.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

And Carpalin said: The devil take these sink-holes, if, by

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

And Carpalin said: The devil take these sink-holes, if, by

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Sume said it was also not true that the squatters were being removed because Thembelihle was a high risk area dotted with dangerous sink-holes.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

Not a tree was in sight, but remembering two or three sink-holes which she had seen beside a clump of bushes near the spot where she had taken aim at the bull-bison, she hastened thither and succeeded in dropping into one some ten feet in depth just as the leaders of the herd were almost upon her.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

"I'll win, or I'll see that he lies and rots in one of his own sink-holes."

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

In some places, there are openings called "sink-holes," caused by the sinking of masses of earth, as in the neighborhood of the city of St. Louis, which would afford outlets for all the water that could be poured into them.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

Large holes, called "sink-holes," are numerous along these banks; the shape of them is precisely that of an inverted cone, through the apex of which the water sinks, and works its way into the river.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America