Example sentences for: tornadoes

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

  • But the Guardian 's front-page lead, headlined "The Terror of the Twisters," was about the tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas.

  • Of the 76 tornadoes reported, the largest was said to be a half-mile to a mile wide, with winds surpassing 260 mph, and reportedly raked the ground for four hours.

  • There's an idea for a new cable channel: Weather Planet!, a cooler, next-generation Weather Channel that would broadcast nothing but radar and video images of extreme weather from all over the world--heavy snow, flash floods, golf-ball-size hail, hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, cyclones, temperatures less than zero or more than 100.

  • In the biggest Hollywood movies, screen actors have become tiny figurines--droids, almost--manipulated in front of colossal computer-generated spaceships, fireballs, tornadoes, and volcanic eruptions.

  • NOAA reported that from fiscal year 1993 to fiscal year 1995, its lead time for predicting tornadoes increased from 7 minutes to 9 minutes, and the accuracy of its predictions increased from 47 percent of the time to 60 percent of the time.


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