hurricane
Example Sentences
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“We’re in the levee-building business, not the hurricane prevention business,” he said.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
“If there were a hurricane and it was destroyed, how much would it cost you to set up someplace?” a woman writes.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 28, 2026
He left to pursue business opportunities in Mexico but, due to a hurricane, somehow ended up in Chile, spent a year wandering north toward America, and then scored an internship in Colombia.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
The arrival of a hurricane means Evie, her little brother, Jack, and the other young people have problems of fresh urgency, including a flood of toxic sludge, that the adults seem unwilling to address.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Mom refused to let go of our home phone because she was afraid of another hurricane disaster, like Jeanne and Frances, which had both hit Florida in September 2004.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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