Example sentences for: niño

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

  • El Niño, officially known as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), works like this: Every three to eight years, for some inexplicable reason, the trade winds that usually blow west from South America to Australia subside.

  • The warm, moist El Niño air causes the jet stream to split as it flows eastward over North America.

  • In South America, El Niño destroys the fishing industry: Peru's economy shrank 5 percent during the '82-'83 El Niño.

  • On the cover, the magazine seconds the popular wisdom that this year's El Niño will be the "century's biggest weather event."

  • Indeed, El Niño influenced the crash of the heavily fished Peruvian anchoveta industry in the late 1970s.


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