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Example sentences for "hailstorms"

Lexicographically close words:
haill; hails; hailstone; hailstones; hailstorm; haima; haine; hainous; haint; hair
  1. Hailstorms are always attended by incessant thunder and lightning, and this fact favors the theory advanced above.

  2. Hailstorms are almost universally attended by constant and heavy thunder and lightning, together with violent winds.

  3. Hailstones and hailstorms differ in different climates, but they are more pronounced in the torrid than in the temperate zone.

  4. Summer hailstorms are feared more than anything else, and in cases of severe hail the farmers have a "hail Mass" performed in church.

  5. Weather-wise peasants know more or less at what time hailstorms may be expected, and are on the alert for danger-signals.

  6. Hailstorms in August are most dreaded, and if the sky seems to indicate that they are coming the priest is warned and goes to stand at the door of the church, bearing the Host, to pronounce the storm blessing.

  7. After several months' work on the cold highlands, where we rode almost daily into hailstorms or wearisome gales, we came at length to the border of the valley country.

  8. At frequent intervals during the three months of winter, snowfalls during the night and terrific hailstorms in the late afternoon drive both shepherds and flocks to the shelter of leeward slopes or steep canyon walls.

  9. A caste of village menials whose function it is to avert hailstorms from the crops.

  10. In ancient Greece there existed a village functionary, the Chalazo phulax, who kept off hailstorms in exactly the same manner as the Garpagari.

  11. The hailstorms destroyed the leaves and I didn't have any chestnuts that year in one part of my grove and with all that--you people come and see how clean it is, that's all there is to it.

  12. We've had most unseasonable hailstorms which have knocked all the buds off the fruit-trees, so, in addition to other annoyances, we shall have no fruit this year.

  13. We have had heavy hailstorms already, hail as big and hard as dried peas, and I have not as yet been able to get fuel.

  14. This summer hailstorms were more general and more severe in the Transvaal than for some time past.

  15. Bad hailstorms occur every year in South Africa, but they do not last long (ten minutes is enough to destroy everything that stands).

  16. The violent hailstorms of the vernal equinox cut both spring and cold season flowers and vegetables, and the rains destroy all summer products.

  17. North-west winds and heavy hailstorms are frequent from March to May, when violent gales set in from the southward.

  18. The tornado is soon over, it is true, but hailstorms are to be preferred.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hailstorms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.