hurricane
Example Sentences
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Many of the groves had gone decades without any real hurricane exposure.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
"Planets form from the bottom up, by sticking small-scale planetesimals together. But forming a planet at the edge of the instability zone would be like trying to stick snowflakes together in a hurricane," he said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026
“We’re in the levee-building business, not the hurricane prevention business,” he said.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
“But if you get hit with a hurricane and an asteroid in the same period, we’ll miss. And that’s OK.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
With all the raging indignation only a Chihuahua could muster, Churro ran to the metal shutter and barked furiously at the hurricane outside, even though he couldn’t see it.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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