Example sentences for: storm

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

  • Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his wife: "This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed, though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me."

  • In La Stampa of Turin, Boris Biancheri, an Italian ex-ambassador to both the United States and Britain, accused the United States of "giving world public opinion the impression that the showdown with Iraq reflected not so much respect for U.N. resolutions as a wish to end a match with Saddam Hussein that had been left unfinished by Operation Desert Storm."

  • To oversimplify: In high school the jocks are on top (unless, of course, armed losers storm the cafeteria one day and mow them down).

  • During the summer and early autumn of 2000, Bin Ladin and senior al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan started selecting the muscle hijackers-the operatives who would storm the cockpits and control the passengers.

  • This high-energy German film has taken its native country by storm, and American critics are equally impressed: It's a "hyperkinetic pop culture firecracker of a film" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). A woman (Lola) has 20 minutes to run across town and recover money lost by her boyfriend.


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