Example sentences for: hurricane

How can you use “hurricane” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Meteorologists had predicted the storm would equal 1992's Hurricane Andrew in power and destruction, but Bret hit the least-populated stretch of the Gulf Coast and was quickly downgraded to a tropical storm.

  • Lately, the only time reporters banded together to travel outside Managua was during Hurricane Mitch, and that had as much to do with crying on each other's shoulders as it did with self-protection.

  • The site is below sea level (even below river level), hot and sticky in the long summer, surrounded by pestilential swamps, vulnerable to every flood and hurricane, and more than 100 miles (160 km) from the Gulf of Mexico — or anywhere else.

  • FEMA got nothing but brickbats for its slow and stumbling performance in the aftermath of 1992's Hurricane Andrew.

  • The Los Angeles Times leads with Hurricane Georges' 100mph whirl through the Florida Keys, a story also carried on the WP and NYT fronts.


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