hailstone

Example Sentences

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He posted photos on X, formerly Twitter, showing one home with its roof torn off and another with roof shingles and himself holding a baseball-sized hailstone.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024

"These things do sometimes happen, something may have struck the window, for example a bird, a large hailstone, it's not unheard of".

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

That is, the hailstone Mr. Scott collected in 2010, which measured eight inches across and weighed nearly two pounds, was no longer the largest ever recorded.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2022

The record is now an official entry in the World Weather & Climate Extremes Archive, a sort of Guinness World Records for weather that also includes the heaviest hailstone and longest lightening flash.

From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2021

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