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

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

The current world record for a hailstone is 8 inches across, or about the size of a volleyball.

From Fox News • May 5, 2020

A large hailstone can hurt you as much as a rock or a lump of lead if it is thrown hard enough—and my goodness, how those Cloud-Men could throw!

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl