How to Use landfall in a Sentence

landfall

noun

• From the deck of the boat, we saw our first landfall.
• Elsa is the third storm to make landfall in the U.S. this year.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 8 July 2021
• The storm is not believed to make any threat of landfall.
  — Paola Pérez, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The fine print: The margin of error is greater the further away landfall is.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 4 Nov. 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's landfall on Friday featured lots of strong winds and sea foam.
  — Fox News, 20 Sep. 2020
• The storm made its first landfall in February, then made a rare loop and hit again.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 17 Mar. 2023
• The last time the United States saw that number of storms making landfall was in 1916.
  — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Zeta was the fastest of these storms, making landfall at 24 mph.
  — Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
• 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 landfall was just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta hit two weeks ago.
  — Jennifer Grubb, CNN, 17 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Once Delta makes landfall later this evening, skies and rain will begin to clear overnight.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2020
• Beta would be the ninth named storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. this year.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2020
• The storm touched down as the strongest to make landfall in Louisiana, and brought floods along with winds of up to 150 miles per hour.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2020
• But where exactly landfall will occur is still up in the air.
  — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• But the surge was half as high as expected, and the winds weakened before landfall.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 13 Oct. 2024
• 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