hurricane
Example Sentences
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The beanstalk shot right through the clouds, where they swirled like the eye of a hurricane.
From Literature
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“It’s like a hurricane. But I didn’t think they happened around here.”
From Literature
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Over the past three decades, fiscal hardship has left us with a fragile electrical grid vulnerable to hurricanes, mass migration, violence, school closures, and a diminished public university.
From BBC
At seventy-four miles an hour she graduated from a tropical storm to a hurricane.
From Literature
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She was also part of the breaking news team that responded to back-to-back hurricanes in in Tampa Bay in 2024, the worst natural disasters to hit the region in more than century.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.