How to Use superstorm in a Sentence

superstorm

noun
  • Watch the video above to see how New York is preparing for the next superstorm — and whether the city will be ready.
    William Poor, The Verge, 24 July 2018
  • Earth will cope this time—but what about the 1.6% to 12% chance that a huge solar superstorm occurs?
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Add sea-level rise and climate-change superstorms, and something has to give.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2017
  • In it, the AMOC grinds to a halt, causing superstorms to ravage entire cities and mega hurricanes to suck frozen air down from space.
    Evan Lubofsky, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • It has been tapped only once, to address shortages in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy in 2012.
    Timothy Puko, WSJ, 23 May 2022
  • None of the Army Corps’ recent superstorm protection projects are going to spring up in a major city anytime soon.
    Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • In another, refugees flee a devastated New York City in the wake of a massive superstorm.
    Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 6 May 2022
  • Two years ago, when the tournament was last in Cincinnati, Daniil Medvedev stormed through the men's singles bracket like a Russian superstorm.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Above this turbulent region in the visible image, there is also a superstorm that looks like a swirly white streak.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 May 2021
  • The two record-setting melt events, along with a superstorm that brought hurricane-force winds to the area around Nome, Alaska, were a fitting end to what turned out to be an unusual summer in the high north.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
  • His family fled New Orleans when the superstorm destroyed his home.
    Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 29 Apr. 2017
  • The project on what’s known as the Canarsie Tunnel is needed to repair saltwater damage caused by superstorm Sandy in 2012.
    Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2017
  • The ravages of climate change have been on display in recent years in the superstorms, floods, rising sea levels, droughts, fires and killing heat waves that will only get worse as the carbon index mounts.
    Todd Stern, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
  • The ravages of climate change have been on display in recent years in the superstorms, floods, rising sea levels, droughts, fires and deadly heat waves that will only get worse as the carbon index mounts.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
  • According to The Washington Post, the superstorm that blew through the Northeast caused the pond the alligators call home to freeze over for the first time in the alligator reserve’s two-year history.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • On the other hand there’s New York City, directly in the path of a line of hurricanes and superstorms that never seems to end, with a mass-transit system that’s held together by dental floss and dreams.
    Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Nuri's spawn, the Bering Sea superstorm, has kicked the jet stream over North America into an exaggerated wavy pattern.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2014
  • Hurricanes today are both more powerful and wetter, so that the consequences of a city getting in the way of a superstorm in 2023 would likely be cataclysmic.
    Bill McGuire, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2022
  • But when another superstorm (named Tammy) descends on their fictional town of Gulfport, threatening to tear it apart, both of them will be put on the same righteous path.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The installation will be funded by a mixture of state and federal grants made available after superstorm Sandy in 2012.
    Kate King, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2019
  • After the underwater-housing bubble bursts and a Sandy-like superstorm plunges the city into chaos, the plot turns on the question of whether the government will finally nationalize the banks.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2017
  • As the next superstorm looms, people in America’s wealthiest neighborhoods might seem to have little to complain about.
    Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The trip is interrupted when the eastern seaboard is pummeled by a superstorm; as the parents party on, Eve and the others decide to escape and find themselves in a world that looks much like the stories depicted in a children's Bible.
    Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Changing weather patterns are choking some parts of the world with drought while flooding others in a cacophony of hurricanes and superstorms.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
  • Snoop Dogg breaks down the craziest encounters, the wildest and most unpredictable reactions to discover if America is once again ground zero for the shark superstorm.
    oregonlive, 11 July 2021
  • The closure is necessary to repair a tunnel under the East River that was flooded with seven million gallons of water during superstorm Sandy in 2012.
    Paul Berger, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
  • In 2012, the tunnel under the East River flooded with seven million gallons of saltwater during superstorm Sandy.
    Paul Berger, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
  • In the five years since superstorm Sandy slammed into New York City and the surrounding region, crippling it and leaving over 100 people dead, billions have been spent to fortify the nation’s largest metropolitan area from the next storm.
    Mara Gay, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Sandy may have been a superstorm, but a utility company says last week’s combination of tornadoes and a macroburst caused more damage to some of the state’s electrical system.
    Dave Altimari, courant.com, 20 May 2018
  • The invasion or superstorm or missiles would arrive; the characters would run for it; inevitably, some innocent would be sacrificed to the gods who demand such things from novelists.
    Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020

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