hurricane

Example Sentences

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“We’re in the levee-building business, not the hurricane prevention business,” he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

“If there were a hurricane and it was destroyed, how much would it cost you to set up someplace?” a woman writes.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 28, 2026

For decades, wildfires were considered a reactive emergency, but more disaster experts are looking for ways to apply proactive messaging, deployment and warning systems to fires — systems more akin to hurricane preparedness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

“Ice storms are a hurricane for us,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

For Tía Beatriz to have survived a hurricane in Nicaragua as a young woman and come all this way to the United States only to die in another storm—it wasn’t fair.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz