How to Use twister in a Sentence

twister

noun
  • The path Once on the ground, the twister was hard to spot in the darkness of the night.
    Dallas News, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The twister blew in a front window and ripped the roofs off the front porch and garage.
    Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The twister yanked them out by their roots and ripped off limbs.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2023
  • Beshear said the twister appeared to have been on the ground for 40 miles.
    Dave Mistich, NPR, 27 May 2024
  • The twister touched down at about 10:05 p.m. and was on the ground for two minutes.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024
  • The twister launched Cartlidge into the air and pulled Nolan from her arms.
    Michael Goldberg, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The weather service said the twister was an EF-0 with top winds of 70 mph.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Like clockwork, the Great Plains see scores of twisters sweep across the springtime prairie.
    Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
  • The twister was determined to have peak winds of 90 mph with a path that ran 1.5 miles.
    NBC News, 4 May 2021
  • Storm chasers in the area captured stunning images and video of the twister.
    Dan Carson, Chron, 24 May 2022
  • Then the twister struck, ripping the roof off the building and dislodging chunks of the wall.
    Jennifer Levitz, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The director of Mashhood’s mosque would lose his home in one of the twisters.
    Monica Rhor, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Her boyfriend, the child's father, tried to grab the bassinet but was spun up into the twister as well, Moore said.
    CBS News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • That was the case Sunday in South Dakota when the state saw its first killer twister since 1999.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Photos and video from Tuesday night showed the massive twister in the city.
    Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2022
  • White bass – fair along windy shorelines and main lake points on twister tails and crankbaits.
    Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 11 July 2018
  • In the U.S. more than 1,000 twisters touch down per year on average.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2017
  • The boyfriend tried to grab the sleeping child but was pulled into the twister himself, per the report.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • That should be the first of many clues that Davis is far more complex than an in-the-ring masher and limb-twister.
    Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • There are arm-twisters, bone-crushers, yankers, dead fish.
    Micah Hauser, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Wreckage tossed about by the twister also blocked roads.
    USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2020
  • The twister, which destroyed at least nine homes, is the strongest to strike New Jersey since 1990.
    NBC News, 3 Sep. 2021
  • These are some of the most vicious twisters to hit the U.S. in recorded history.
    Fox News, 21 June 2017
  • And obviously, the twister comes in just a few minutes before the end of the episode.
    James Hibberd, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The twister just missed a group of protesters at Lake Eola.
    Gerald Herbert and Kevin McGill, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2020
  • The twister just missed a group of protesters at Lake Eola at around 7:30 p.m.
    NBC News, 5 June 2020
  • Cast a lead-head jig and twister tail, small hooks tipped with worms or nymphs and work them along the river bottom.
    cleveland.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The twister just missed a group of George Floyd protesters at Lake Eola at around 7:30 p.m.
    Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 7 June 2020
  • There will be face painting, a petting zoo and a balloon twister.
    Megan Stringer, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Among the dozens of tornadoes was a twister that hit the tiny barrier island of Matlacha, just off Fort Myers.
    Julio Cortez, Kate Payne, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024

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