windstorm

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Recent Examples of windstorm And Manzanar is known for incredible windstorms and dust storms. Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025 The bill would also require property insurers to pay claims and seek repayment from the homeowner’s flood or windstorm insurance provider. Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025 Homeowners living in regions that experience frequent hurricanes and windstorms would do well to invest in many of the same materials — and to upgrade any old vinyl siding, which can be particularly vulnerable, is also a good idea. Ron Lieber, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025 The Los Angeles Region Small Business and Worker Relief Funds provide direct support to businesses, nonprofits and workers affected by the windstorm and wildfires that occurred in January. Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for windstorm
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Noun
  • Any tornado with slower wind speeds is considered an EF0.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 25 May 2025
  • Each of those states has seen between 87 and 97 tornadoes so far, AccuWeather reported.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • If approved, the cuts would served a devastating blow to the U.N., which is already struggling as other governments also cut contributions.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025
  • Her relationship may have been seen as the ideal outcome of inner work, so its collapse may have felt disappointing, like a blow to their healing process.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Eyewitnesses described furious gales and hurricane-like winds that left an avalanche of debris near the pier.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
  • Fierce gales hit the Irish Sea in late October 1859.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Prepare for penny-sized hail (0.75 inches) and wind gusts of up to 50 mph.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2025
  • The set-up led to several major storms on Memorial Day that walloped the southern Plains and Southeast with strong wind gusts, a few tornadoes and large hail.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Out of the midst of this thunder and turmoil and tempest rose Dr. Otto Lecher, serene and collected.
    Don DeLillo, Harpers Magazine, 5 May 2025
  • Plagued by the tempests of drugs, murder, corruption and other vices of biblical proportion for much of the past five decades, residents in this tiny burg just south of Chicago are seeing a ray of divine hope in their most famous native son, Pope Leo XIV.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • And the durable, water-repellent, quick-dry fabric has thus far shrugged off light snowfall, summer squalls, poison ivy, and even thorny underbrush.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 30 May 2025
  • The squalls could prompt a sudden drop in visibility and quickly cover roads with a thin coating of ice and snow, presenting a danger to travelers, AccuWeather warned.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024

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“Windstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windstorm. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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