How to Use landfall in a Sentence
landfall
noun- From the deck of the boat, we saw our first landfall.
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Elsa is the third storm to make landfall in the U.S. this year.
—Leigh Morgan, al, 8 July 2021
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Delta will be the fifth hurricane to make landfall in the US this year -- the most since 2005.
—Allison Chinchar, Brandon Miller, and Sara Tonks, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
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Nicholas will be the eighth storm to make landfall on the United States so far this year.
—NBC News, 13 Sep. 2021
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This would be the first US landfall storm of the 2024 Atlantic season.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN, 7 July 2024
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The fine print: The margin of error is greater the further away landfall is.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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If the rain does make landfall, roads could become slick.
—Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2021
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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
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Ian is one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall in the United States.
—Victoria Ballard, Sun Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
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Little change to the location of landfall and effects of the storm.
—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
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The storm's landfall on Friday featured lots of strong winds and sea foam.
—Fox News, 20 Sep. 2020
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The storm made its first landfall in February, then made a rare loop and hit again.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 17 Mar. 2023
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The last time the United States saw that number of storms making landfall was in 1916.
—NBC News, 22 Sep. 2020
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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
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Zeta was the fastest of these storms, making landfall at 24 mph.
—Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
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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
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The surge can raise water levels on rivers miles inland from the point of landfall.
—George Petras, USA Today, 30 May 2023
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Even the hurricanes that don’t make landfall leave their mark.
—Leah Tyler, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022
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The landfall was just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta hit two weeks ago.
—Jennifer Grubb, CNN, 17 Nov. 2020
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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
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It's forecast to be a Cat 2 at landfall near Morgan City.
—Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
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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
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DeSantis left the campaign trail ahead of the storm's landfall to return to his home state.
—USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
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Once Delta makes landfall later this evening, skies and rain will begin to clear overnight.
—Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2020
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Beta would be the ninth named storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. this year.
—Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2020
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But where exactly landfall will occur is still up in the air.
—NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
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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
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But the surge was half as high as expected, and the winds weakened before landfall.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 13 Oct. 2024
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The storm is expected to make landfall between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.
—Curt Anderson, Freida Frisaro, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2021
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As current forecasts show the storm moving toward the northern Gulf Coast, Texas may feel some impacts, even without a landfall.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Nov. 2024
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