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
• 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
• 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
• Rescue workers said one train car picked up by the twister landed on a house 75 yards from the train tracks.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2021
• Many sped to shelters as twisters mangled the land behind them.
  — Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 9 May 2020
• There will be face painting, a petting zoo and a balloon twister.
  — Megan Stringer, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
• As the twister picks up speed, the crew abandons its car, hoping to take shelter under an overpass.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024