tempest

Example Sentences

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Haiti's Civil Protection Agency reported two people died and another was injured Thursday when the tempest triggered a landslide in the west of the island nation.

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

But summoning this tempest is something of an act of will.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Amid the film’s self-conscious depiction of a brewing tempest, he remains a true force of nature.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

At the time, Guinea was in the midst of a "political tempest", she wrote.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2025

Then he collected Scott’s camera, ice ax, and favorite pocketknife—which Beidleman would later give to Scott’s nine-year-old son in Seattle—and descended into the tempest.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer