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Example sentences for "cyclone"

Lexicographically close words:
cyclist; cyclists; cycloid; cycloidal; cyclometer; cyclones; cyclonic; cyclopean; cyclorama; cyclostoma
  1. Three minutes later, the cyclone had burst upon them in all its frenzy.

  2. Battling Percy has a kind heart, but Cyclone Jim packs the punch.

  3. Interviewed by our representative after the fight, Cyclone Jim said: 'The issue was never in doubt.

  4. ROUND TWO "The Cyclone came out of his corner with a rush, getting home on the Battler's shirt-front and following it up with a right to the chin.

  5. Cyclone Jim put in a rapid one-two punch which opened a large gash in the atmosphere.

  6. The Battler fell into a clinch, but the Cyclone broke away and, measuring his distance, picked up a haymaker from the floor and put it over.

  7. Anon, we again went for a ride, and I am here to state that the way we breezed through that village made the proverbial Kansas cyclone look as if it was running on crutches.

  8. If he don't think he run up against the business end of a cyclone it will be because I got throat trouble and can't talk.

  9. It came upon the Papeete people like a tidal wave out of the sea, or like a cyclone that devastates a Paumotu atoll, but, entre nous, it had been brooding for months.

  10. The cyclone upset his mind, I reckon," said Paul, with a faint show of humor.

  11. No one who has not experienced the dreadful effects of a cyclone can imagine it, be the description of it ever so fine.

  12. From what I have heard I should say that was a cyclone cloud," exclaimed Paul.

  13. Caught in a Cyclone Less than an hour later Jasper was brought out and Noel Urner sprang into the saddle, with Allen behind him on the blanket.

  14. It was a full-fledged cyclone and no mistake," returned his brother.

  15. That was an old cow who had been caught in the cyclone and killed.

  16. After the cyclone the sun had come out strong and hot, and halfway back to the ranch the brothers were glad enough to stop beside the bank of a tiny mountain stream and obtain a drink and water the horse.

  17. A cyclone like that can do more damage than can be repaired in ten years," observed Chet as they labored along on foot.

  18. Rising, she seized the broom and began vigorously to sweep together the leaves and grass which the cyclone had cast in through the open door.

  19. The wind shifted rapidly, a cyclone in miniature as to dimensions, though not as to strength; but the Iroquois had been hove-to on the right tack according to the law of storms.

  20. Is it not possible, we may ask, that in the very midst of the cyclone of daily life we may find a similar resting-place?

  21. Yes, there is this priceless thing within us, but hoofing along the roads in the mud we fail to find it; there is this region of calm, but the cyclone of the world raging around guards us from entering it.

  22. During the night the threatened cyclone made its appearance and the "Foam" let go her anchor in Kingston harbor just time to escape the full fury of the storm.

  23. He made all possible speed to reach the willows on the windward shore; but before he could grasp them, the outer circle of the cyclone struck him and he was enveloped in a whirling mass of buffalo grass, twigs and dust.

  24. Paul was favored with fairly good weather after the cyclone and in a few days ran into Bismarck, where he was welcomed and entertained on board the Northern Pacific transfer boat, by Captain Wolfolk.

  25. There is signs av a cyclone if Oi'm not mishtaken;" an invitation which the pilot gladly accepted.

  26. They outrage some one's self-respect, and then the old primordial cyclone hits them.

  27. And so men are not compelled to face the scorching furnaces; we do not have to forge the iron that resists the invading cyclone and the leveling earthquake.

  28. The center of the cyclone had swept far ahead.

  29. When a ship meets a cyclone north of the equator on a westerly course she nearly always has the wind at first on the port side, but, owing to the revolution of the gale, when she passes its center the wind is on the starboard side.

  30. A cyclone will form off the Pescadores S.

  31. In the place of their fugitive and warring dreams we have, definitely, Lavalle's Law of the Cyclone which he surprised in darkness and cold at the foot of the overarching throne of the Aurora Borealis.

  32. Once a cyclone had carried away Uncle Henry's house, so that he was obliged to build another; and as he was a poor man he had to mortgage his farm to get the money to pay for the new house.

  33. The house which the cyclone brought to Oz all the way from Kansas, with you and Toto in it--was a real airship at the time; so you see we've had plenty of experience flying with the birds.

  34. Suddenly a voice roared from out the open transom of the private office, like a cyclone through a gap.

  35. Just then, from without the ship, came a terrible roaring sound, as though there was a great cyclone in progress.

  36. I was two- thirds drunk when the cyclone flung us ashore.

  37. Mr Ross was anxious to hear whether the cyclone had done any damage at home, although he had not much fear, for it had apparently come from another direction.

  38. With Mr Ross the boys visited the site of their former camp, where the cyclone wrought such havoc, and where they had had such a narrow escape.

  39. Fortunately, the cyclone had passed some miles to the west of them, and so they had escaped its fury.

  40. In one direction, like as though a great reaper had gone through a splendid meadow, and cut clean to the ground a great swath of grass, so had this cyclone gone through the forest.

  41. I don’t suppose we shall see anything of that, the cyclone must have finished it.

  42. We were about a degree and a half south at noon before that cyclone struck us, but I don’t see that that would help us now.

  43. Joyce then, as the senior, told the story of all that had happened from the time the cyclone had burst upon them.

  44. In recent times a cyclone took the whole crop, as you may say; and the island never saw a finer one.

  45. It takes a year to mature the canes--on the high ground three and six months longer --and there is always a chance that the annual cyclone will rip the profit out of the crop.

  46. The cyclone of 1892 killed and crippled hundreds of people; it was accompanied by a deluge of rain, which drowned Port Louis and produced a water famine.

  47. The cyclone of 1892 tore down two great blocks of stone buildings in the center of Port Louis--the chief architectural feature-and left the uncomely and apparently frail blocks standing.

  48. It resembled an able-bodied cyclone ripping up four miles of plank road and driving it through the pulsating heart of a colored camp-meeting.

  49. The cyclone swooped down upon us from Kansas and swiped our crops, making our boasts that here was an Elysium beyond the storm-belt sound as hollow as Adam's dream of Eden after he was lifted over the garden wall.

  50. Belle was a stickler in her home for neatness, even though the cyclone might have been supposed to harden her to dust.

  51. Belle, encouraged, then confessed that a cyclone had given her her own first start West.

  52. A cyclone of death had smitten the summit.

  53. Yet in the midst of this cyclone of death the Boer gunners, behind their earthworks, worked their guns as steadfastly as the British gunners.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cyclone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blaze; blow; burst; convulsion; cyclone; eruption; explosion; fit; front; gale; gust; high; hurricane; irruption; isotherm; low; outbreak; outburst; paroxysm; rainstorm; seizure; snowstorm; spasm; squall; storm; tempest; thunderstorm; tornado; twister; typhoon; upheaval; waterspout; whirlwind