hurricane
Example Sentences
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Rice, a tax lawyer from a coastal district, had hurricanes in mind and wanted to ensure taxpayers got standardized relief.
The beanstalk shot right through the clouds, where they swirled like the eye of a hurricane.
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“It’s like a hurricane. But I didn’t think they happened around here.”
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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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.