How to Use derecho in a Sentence

derecho

noun

• The derecho was one of the worst weather events in the U.S. in 2020.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• By the end of the day, the derecho had traveled about 500 miles.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• Straight-line winds from the derecho reached speeds of 97 mph.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 15 June 2022
• Hart said the destruction was made worse due to the width of the derecho.
  — Bill Kirkos, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020
• The derecho passed through the state with observed wind gusts at over 120 mph.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2021
• The derecho blew in from Iowa, where winds surpassed 100 mph.
  — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• Not all derechos are created equal and the 2012 case was at the high end of the spectrum.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
• During the height of the storm, there were a few cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, but nothing crazy like the 2012 derecho.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• For Rush, the crisis is a repeat of the derecho in May, when her home didn’t have power for six days.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 13 July 2024
• And, of course, getting any sort of a derecho is rare in the much drier western third of the United States.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 7 June 2020
• That all appears to add up to the definition of a derecho.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 7 June 2020
• The senior forward had just arrived on campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when a derecho blew through the town.
  — Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• In its simplest terms, a derecho is based on the principle that warm air rises and cold air falls.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2021
• But unlike a hurricane, a derecho can come out of nowhere.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 14 Aug. 2020
• In Washington, the gusts were stronger than both the derecho in 2012 and Hurricane Sandy later that year.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2018
• But the derecho, a straight-line windstorm, was relentless.
  — NBC News, 20 Apr. 2021
• The severe line of thunderstorms may have met the criteria for a derecho.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2020
• The damage this time was from a derecho, a line of intense and fast-moving windstorms marauding across the prairie.
  — Will Wright, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• There's also the chance of a derecho forming across the region, forecasters warned.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• In August 2020, a severe derecho storm moved across the Midwest just before the fall corn harvest.
  — Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• Last year, a derecho caused major destruction in parts of Iowa and Illinois.
  — Daniel Manzo, ABC News, 28 July 2021
• A wicked derecho plowed through the Twin Cities on Sunday morning, shredding trees with severe gusts and buckets of hail.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• The derecho affected some 14 million crop acres, or 57% of Iowa's area planted.
  — Tom Polansek, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• Gensini said this derecho will go down as one of the strongest in recent history and be one of the nation's worst weather events of 2020.
  — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2020
• The most notable such events this year were the wildfires in the West, the multitude of hurricane landfalls along the Gulf Coast, and the extremely strong derecho in the Midwest.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2020
• The million-dollar question is whether the storms will end up being classified as a derecho.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• The storm coincidentally fell on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the rare derecho that spawned a tornado in Rogers Park.
  — Nicole Stock, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• Keeping the fridge going and the fans spinning is perhaps most important amid extreme heat, as the 2012 derecho showed.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• The Weather Service also confirmed a derecho in Wayne and Holmes counties.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 15 June 2022
• The derecho toppled hundreds of trees — some onto homes — as well as dozens of wires and power poles, while ripping off roofs and damaging vehicles.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024