How to Use waterspout in a Sentence

waterspout

noun

• Prany turned on all the waterspouts, the showerhead, and the faucet.
  — Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• This isn't the first time a waterspout has been spotted off Destin.
  — Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
• The waterspout though was off the barrier islands, which is the area of Sunny Isles Beach.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The storms also generated a waterspout over Lake Buyukcekmece, a large lake on the edge of the city.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2020
• Also in the mix was freezing rain, thunder snow and at least one waterspout.
  — John Hopewell, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• That video, taken by Amy and Daniel Somers, shows debris flying in the air as the waterspout approached land.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 7 Aug. 2022
• More footage of that waterspout that was near Destin this morning.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
• Video from 2015 shows a waterspout whipping over a New Jersey man's house.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2017
• The season lacks the abrupt violence of summer squalls, full of lightning and waterspouts, but many a March and April morning speaks of wind.
  — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• Then, the captain alerted the team that a waterspout—or a tornado that whirls over water—was forming off the port bow.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 June 2019
• Nearly 2,000 years ago, Lucian of Samosata wrote a tale about a boat that was blasted all the way to the Moon by a powerful waterspout.
  — Joel Davis, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2019
• Footage filmed by area resident Eyup Can Kızılkaya shows the waterspout moving over the lake.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2020
• This glass bath is shallow enough for birds of all sizes to splash and also includes a pleasant mini waterspout in the center.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2023
• One such story tells of the journey Lucian and 50 companions take on a boat carried to the Moon by a giant waterspout.
  — Joel Davis, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2019
• According to the city’s Facebook post about the incident, a waterspout is the most likely cause of the bizarre animal rain.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Jan. 2022
• Mehrlich said airport staff, too, initially thought the fish were carried by a waterspout.
  — Dallas News, 22 June 2022
• It is believed that waterspouts, which are tornadoes over water, can suck fish into the air and the wind carries them until they are tossed to the ground.
  — Joy Johnston, ajc, 30 Sep. 2017
• The waterspout occurred on the south side of Cuba in the town of Cienfuegos, and lasted for about 8 minutes, not causing any damage.
  — Jennifer Gray and Haley Brink, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
• South Florida is the waterspout capital of the world, although most of them remain over the water.
  — Doug Phillips, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 May 2017
• The waterspout occurring today near the Mackinac Bridge was a fair-weather one.
  — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2020
• The state is no stranger to tornadoes, and a lot of that has to do with coastal weather systems that can drum up the maritime phenomenon known as a waterspout.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• On extreme occasions, a few of these vortices may stretch all the way up to the clouds above, creating the elusive winter waterspout.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
• The waterspout moved into the Bay City neighborhood of Kent Island at 1:29 a.m., according to the report.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 24 July 2017
• Originally hung to scare off evil spirits, the monster’s head doubled as a hideous waterspout that drained rainwater down off the roof and out the beast’s mouth.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2020
• The user labeled the phenomenon a waterspout in the video's caption.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• The typical waterspout will have winds of 30-40 mph, according to the weather service.
  — Leigh Morgan, al.com, 5 June 2019
• On this day: In 2002, a waterspout formed over the Mississippi River near Norco and moved overhead as a funnel cloud.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• Hail was even reported on the islands as the storms moved onshore early in the week, and there were several reports of waterspouts captured off Maui.
  — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• That along with funnel clouds, waterspouts and hailstorms, made for an interesting Father’s Day in much of western Oregon.
  — oregonlive, 20 June 2023
• Damaging winds of up to 95 mph, brief tornadoes and waterspouts are also possible Sunday.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024

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