How to Use hailstorm in a Sentence

hailstorm

noun
  • The hailstorm may be among the costliest to hit the Denver area.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity.com, 10 May 2017
  • Skies are overcast and there is a hailstorm on the way.
    Andrew Carey, Olga Voitovych, and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
  • It’s on the minds of a lot of my neighbors who were hit with a spring hailstorm.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 16 July 2021
  • The weather for the greater part of the trip was hot and arid, except for a hailstorm and lightning.
    Carol Cormaci, La Cañada Valley Sun, 10 July 2017
  • Larry and Shirley Reyes of Deer Park couldn’t get all of their hailstorm claims paid.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 22 July 2021
  • My live oak trees lost at least half of their leaves in a recent hailstorm.
    Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 18 June 2020
  • The resident told him there was no recent hailstorm and the man walked away.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Christoforou’s attempts to grow grapes were dashed by rare hailstorms that hit the island in the first few days of June.
    NBC News, 22 June 2018
  • Parts of the Houston area were hit hard by hailstorms over the weekend, and that can leave lasting damage for roofs and homes.
    Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Hailstorms are the destroyer of crops, the harbingers of rot.
    Esquire Editors, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The event remains one of the costliest hailstorms in U.S. history.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2024
  • Yet the pace of space news keeps accelerating like a hailstorm on a roof.
    Michael Hainey, WIRED, 28 Mar. 1983
  • But the researchers say the role of climate change in future hailstorms is harder to assess.
    Dan Elliott, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Its hailstorm of ideas remains stunning — and aptly painful if, as a proud progressive, you’re struck in the face by the ice of its wit.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Germany experienced a freak hailstorm over the weekend, and up to a foot of hailstones piled up in the streets.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • When the hailstorm hit, many only had emergency foil blankets to keep warm, but some had their sheets blown away or torn in the wind.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 28 May 2021
  • Yes, there's no snow, and just a very occasional frost or brief, gusty hailstorm.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 25 July 2022
  • The sound is like a fusillade of manual typewriters, or a hailstorm on a tin roof.
    David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Here's the street version: A hailstorm hits your neighborhood.
    Dallas News, 6 June 2019
  • People involved suggest this damage was from an even less lucky bird caught in the hailstorm.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
  • Stone Circle was scheduled to have its first activation in late April, but a last-minute hailstorm threw a wrench in the plans.
    Michael Agresta, WIRED, 16 May 2018
  • That tome and his hailstorm of follow-up titles trained a generation of Americans to grin and fake it all the way to the bank.
    Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 5 Oct. 2017
  • When a 2018 hailstorm rocked their Georgetown neighborhood, the Kelleys filed a roof claim.
    Dallas News, 9 July 2020
  • How about parking yourself in a hailstorm with chunks of ice as large as softballs pummeling the ground around you?
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
  • The riders were flying down hairpin bends down the Col de l’Iseran – the Tour’s highest point at 9,090 feet – when a hailstorm hit lower down the valley.
    Fox News, 26 July 2019
  • Hailstones of record size are falling left and right, and hailstorm damage is growing.
    Oliver Whang, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • On Wednesday, a hailstorm killed a toddler in the Catalonia region of Spain.
    Oliver Whang, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Wagner said Smith was near a backyard fire pit with his younger brother when the wind picked up and a hailstorm started.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2021
  • But what about in 20 years, when hailstorms are likely going to be more severe and solar will cover much more ground?
    Dan Gearino, WIRED, 29 June 2024
  • Even residents of states seen as climate havens, such as Minnesota, are watching their rates go up because of an uptick in hailstorms and thunderstorms.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024

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