Examples of hailstorm in a Sentence
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Skies are overcast and there is a hailstorm on the way.
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Andrew Carey, Olga Voitovych, and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
The infamous Alaska Airlines door-plug incident this January—in which a chunk of a 737 Max fuselage popped off mid-air—has triggered a hailstorm of new revelations about safety flaws and construction problems.
—Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
McDonnell remembers getting paged during a hailstorm from a couple who insisted on getting their lesson.
—Chris MacIas -, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
Hail Fog - Falls after a heavy hailstorm when cold balls of ice fall into warm and moist air near the surface, creating patchy and shallow fog
Radiation Fog - Forms at night when skies are clear and winds are calm when heat absorbed by the earth's surface during the day is radiated into space.
—Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2024
The result is a gory environmentalist tale — in which people are killed by freak hailstorms or crushed by collapsing oil machinery.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 July 2023
Lack of safe shelter from extreme weather affected multiple concerts last year, including a Louis Tomlinson show in June in Colorado where a hailstorm injured 80 to 90 people and forced the gig to be called off, according to the local fire service.
—Diana Baptista, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
The storms are typically characterized by high winds, hailstorms, derechos, and tornados.
—Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 29 May 2023
Dozens were injured when a storm pelted a Colorado music venue with golf-ball sized hail, also in June, while a September hailstorm near Austin, Texas, damaged 750 vehicles owned by auto dealership operator
Penske Automotive Group
.
—Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
Andrew Carey, Olga Voitovych, and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
The infamous Alaska Airlines door-plug incident this January—in which a chunk of a 737 Max fuselage popped off mid-air—has triggered a hailstorm of new revelations about safety flaws and construction problems.
—Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
McDonnell remembers getting paged during a hailstorm from a couple who insisted on getting their lesson.
—Chris MacIas -, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
Hail Fog - Falls after a heavy hailstorm when cold balls of ice fall into warm and moist air near the surface, creating patchy and shallow fog
Radiation Fog - Forms at night when skies are clear and winds are calm when heat absorbed by the earth's surface during the day is radiated into space.
—Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2024
The result is a gory environmentalist tale — in which people are killed by freak hailstorms or crushed by collapsing oil machinery.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 July 2023
Lack of safe shelter from extreme weather affected multiple concerts last year, including a Louis Tomlinson show in June in Colorado where a hailstorm injured 80 to 90 people and forced the gig to be called off, according to the local fire service.
—Diana Baptista, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
The storms are typically characterized by high winds, hailstorms, derechos, and tornados.
—Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 29 May 2023
Dozens were injured when a storm pelted a Colorado music venue with golf-ball sized hail, also in June, while a September hailstorm near Austin, Texas, damaged 750 vehicles owned by auto dealership operator
Penske Automotive Group
.
—Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
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hailstorm
noun
hail·storm
-ˌstȯ(ə)rm 
: a storm accompanied by hail
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