How to Use landfall in a Sentence

landfall

noun

• From the deck of the boat, we saw our first landfall.
• Ida made a second landfall about two hours later near Galliano.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2021
• But some other models predict landfall will be further west along the Texas coast.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2021
• Strength: Winds reached 140 mph at landfall, creating widespread storm surge.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024
• There will also be the threat for tornadoes, rip currents, storm surge and damaging winds as Ida makes landfall to the west.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 29 Aug. 2021
• The latest runs of both models show a strong hurricane making landfall somewhere along the Louisiana coast.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2021
• Ida made its first landfall Friday afternoon on Cuba’s southern Isle of Youth.
  — Time, 28 Aug. 2021
• Ida made its first landfall Friday afternoon on Cuba's southern Isle of Youth.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2021
• Where Ida makes landfall in southeast coastal Louisiana, winds gusting near 150 mph are possible.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2021
• But the National Hurricane Center said its forecast landfall point could shift by as much as 60 miles, and strong winds and heavy rain will affect most of the state.
  — Peter Weber, theweek, 9 Oct. 2024
• But after its landfall, the storm will likely track up the Tennessee Valley early next week and make an exit to the east, somewhere close to the D.C. region.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2021
• Nicholas will be the eighth storm to make landfall on the United States so far this year.
  — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2021
• This would be the first US landfall storm of the 2024 Atlantic season.
  — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 7 July 2024
• If the rain does make landfall, roads could become slick.
  — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2021
• By the end of the play, Life of Pi wraps back around to its big lessons, making landfall again in the land of the vague and obvious.
  — Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
• Ian is one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall in the United States.
  — Victoria Ballard, Sun Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
• Little change to the location of landfall and effects of the storm.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• The storm made its first landfall in February, then made a rare loop and hit again.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 17 Mar. 2023
• The storm made landfall on Sunday with sustained winds of up to 40 miles per hour and gusts of up to 49 miles per hour.
  — NBC News, 12 Apr. 2022
• Hurst was last seen on last seen on the boat the day Hurricane Ian made landfall on Sept. 28, per the outlet.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2023
• The surge can raise water levels on rivers miles inland from the point of landfall.
  — George Petras, USA Today, 30 May 2023
• Even the hurricanes that don’t make landfall leave their mark.
  — Leah Tyler, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022
• The rubble at Çeşme-Bağlararası lay in four distinct layers, which marked the landfall of at least four tsunamis.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
• It's forecast to be a Cat 2 at landfall near Morgan City.
  — Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
• The intrepid and long-lived storm is gearing up for its third and final landfall, this time in Texas.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
• DeSantis left the campaign trail ahead of the storm's landfall to return to his home state.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• But where exactly landfall will occur is still up in the air.
  — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• The waves could cause coastal flooding, though the storm itself is not expected to make a U.S. landfall.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021
• The group said there's a 71% chance at least one major hurricane will make landfall somewhere in the U.S.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
• This can be up to a day before a hurricane makes landfall.
  — Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 31 May 2022

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024