At every movement he started small avalanches of stone and dirt.

Races are sometimes peppered with rock slides, falling hay bales and small avalanches.

Something thrashed hidden in the woods, shaking the ground and raising small avalanches of stones across the slope.

Constant small avalanches of sand and soil from the bank powdered the children's hair and clothes with gray-black dust.

Pouring from above, sloughs and small avalanches hissed over the wall, slithering across bare stone and ice, gathering force and urgency.

We recalled many a cascade among the Alps, where from remote heights the small avalanches of snowy water form comet-like streamers of rarest beauty.