How to Use updraft in a Sentence

updraft

noun

• The warm moist air feeding into the storm, or updraft, twists around it like a corkscrew.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• From that updraft, a wall cloud — a long-hanging rugged cloud — emerges.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• If the updrafts are strong enough and last long enough, the graupel can keep growing and become denser.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2023
• Strong updrafts tossed the aircraft and thick hail battered its body.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
• Stronger updrafts help hail stay aloft and grow larger.
  — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2023
• Simard writes, for instance, of the thrill of watching an eagle catch an updraft.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
• The warm air rises through the colder air, causing an updraft.
  — Ron Johnson, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• The vertical part of the plus sign is a strong updraft wind into the thunderstorm.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 25 July 2019
• It’s not unusual for a 6-foot wave to produce a 30-foot-tall updraft.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• Combine this with wind shear, and strong updrafts can start the rotations.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2024
• Many birds rest when the sun is high, but raptors such as eagles and hawks soar on updrafts that form when sunlight warms the ground.
  — The New York Times Elaine Chen Emily Anthes, New York Times, 18 May 2023
• If a thunderstorm cell was able to get going, then those strong wind changes could impart a spin to the updraft.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2021
• With fire, Iona can transform a planet into a ball of flame and use the updraft to reach far away portions of a level.
  — Matthew Gault, Time, 12 Aug. 2019
• So all the precipitation falls off to the side, but the updraft is able to sustain itself.
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 19 July 2024
• If thermals exist, pilots can key in on them, catch the updrafts, and extend their flight time.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 2 Aug. 2017
• The wind shear acts to tilt the updraft away from the downdraft in storm cells, so that the two do not interfere, increasing storm vigor.
  — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
• The waves get steeper as they near shore, further strengthening the updraft.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• The updraft will begin to rotate if winds vary sharply in speed or direction.
  — Ron Johnson, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• The idea is that this rotating air could then be turned upright when it gets sucked into an updraft.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• Eventually, hail stones fall to the surface when the updrafts can no longer support their weight.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• The speed of the updraft and the amount of ash in the plume can reveal how intensely a fire is burning, said Forrest, who operated the radar scans.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2022
• There was no rotation, Hatzos said, but there was a slight updraft.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 5 Feb. 2020
• The data does not say what became of the swallows, a species that is said to fly high at times, with thermal updrafts, hunting insects.
  — Fred Swegles, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2017
• To ride the wave without facing adverse outcomes, fello’fly planes will use an updraft of air that’s just outside the tube of wingtip vortex.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2020
• That updraft will go away in 2020, leading to a more moderate second half.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 24 Jan. 2020
• This, however, does require a strong and long-lived updraft to help stretch and tighten the rotation.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• The updrafts lower the weight of the air at the surface, and this can agitate the ocean surface dramatically.
  — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• The peak of the updraft has two spinning columns on either side of it—the larger of the two columns overtakes the smaller one and becomes the thunderstorm.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2020
• And the shear can initiate a region of rotation in the updraft, called a mesocyclone.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
• If the updrafts are vigorous enough, and there's sufficient water vapor, a large volume of ice particles can form high in the cloud, helping to create lightning.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024