hailstone
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A 20-month-old child has died in Spain after being struck on the head by a hailstone.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2022
A person holds up a hailstone during a hailstorm in Girona, Spain August 30, 2022.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2022
In April, a monster, record-setting hailstone roughly 6.4 inches in diameter fell in her forecast area.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
The current world record for a hailstone is 8 inches across, or about the size of a volleyball.
From Fox News ● May 5, 2020
Grinning, he gathered in one sweep all the mucus in his flaring nostrils and let fly a blob as thick as a hailstone.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
On Monday night, hailstones piled up in doorways, making it impossible to open them and creating dams that pushed rainwater into buildings, he said.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024
All sound like the stuff of fun games — except when they are used to describe the size of the hailstones that often accompany severe thunderstorms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
St Helier-based Carl Walker, the chairman of Jersey's Consumer Council, said his family were woken by hailstones at midnight, which he said had stuck together to create "golf ball-sized lumps of ice".
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023
Dozens of people on the island were evacuated to hotels overnight on Wednesday and locals were also hit by huge hailstones "bigger than golf balls".
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023
I vowed to work doubly hard the next day, but she took little consolation in that promise, showering me with complaints as heavy as hailstones as I rushed out the kitchen door.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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