typhoon
Example Sentences
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The noise - lasting and deafening - rose up and swirled around like a typhoon, gathering up everybody in its vicinity, delirious Hearts folk thrilled to be sucked into the vortex.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Shell's end of year was marked by survivors of a deadly 2021 typhoon in the Philippines filing a UK lawsuit against the company, seeking financial compensation for climate-related harms.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
“We did two months of typhoon disaster relief for five provinces here,” he said.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025
The country's meteorological service had earlier warned of destructive winds and "high-risk of life-threatening" storm surges from the "very intense" typhoon.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025
The next week, on my birthday, there was a terrible typhoon.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
Vocabulary lists containing typhoon
Physical Geography - Introductory
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