hailstone

Example Sentences

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He posted photos on X, formerly Twitter, showing one home with its roof torn off and another with roof shingles and himself holding a baseball-sized hailstone.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024

"These things do sometimes happen, something may have struck the window, for example a bird, a large hailstone, it's not unheard of".

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

A person holds up a hailstone during a hailstorm in Girona, Spain August 30, 2022.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2022

The current world record for a hailstone is 8 inches across, or about the size of a volleyball.

From Fox News • May 5, 2020

The sky hurled hailstone after hailstone onto my field.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson