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

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024