Example sentences for: storms

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

  • TV stations send barrages of warnings about storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, blizzards.

  • USA Today leads with a forecast that this week severe late-winter snow storms will hit much of the country east of the Rocky Mountains, while tornadoes will hit Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri.

  • Since 1993, nearly four dozen severe winter storms have been so designated, 17 in 1996 alone.

  • But all the papers fail to explain how a storm qualifies as a hurricane (once its top sustained winds pass 74 mph) as well as the quaint method by which tropical storms and hurricanes are named (an alphabetical system that starts over each year with a name beginning with "A" and is planned years in advance, so that we already know that the first such storm of 2002 in the Atlantic region will be called Arthur, the second Bertha, and the eighth Hortense).

  • They were part of the Scarborough Bluffs peninsula until storms and floods in the mid-19th century broke them up into islands, joined today by bridges.


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