make landfall
idiom
: to reach land after a journey by sea or air
They made landfall on the fourth day of their journey.
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Hurricane Erin is expected to move further out to sea on Friday, and the storm is not predicted to make landfall.
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
Originally, forecast models showed the storm making a northward turn away from the U.S. Now, models have shifted south, increasing the chances that Erin, which is expected to become a major hurricane this weekend, will make landfall on the U.S. East Coast.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
The team's predictions have suggested that the current trend – more cluster hurricanes – will continue through at least the middle of the century, meaning more seasons with concentrated bursts of these damaging storms likely to make landfall.
—New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2025
All eight undersea cables make landfall in Lagos, the cultural, commercial, and one-time federal capital of Nigeria, and one of the cables also lands near Port Harcourt to the southeast.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Aug. 2025
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
Originally, forecast models showed the storm making a northward turn away from the U.S. Now, models have shifted south, increasing the chances that Erin, which is expected to become a major hurricane this weekend, will make landfall on the U.S. East Coast.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
The team's predictions have suggested that the current trend – more cluster hurricanes – will continue through at least the middle of the century, meaning more seasons with concentrated bursts of these damaging storms likely to make landfall.
—New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2025
All eight undersea cables make landfall in Lagos, the cultural, commercial, and one-time federal capital of Nigeria, and one of the cables also lands near Port Harcourt to the southeast.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Aug. 2025
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