(n.) A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
(2) The weather conditions could possibly have been described as merely heavy snow in the first half but by the second half it was a full-on blizzard.
(3) Much of the UK faces several days of battering winds and localised blizzards as a pair of particularly severe weather systems pass over the country.
(4) There is a wide range of intellectual abilities of persons with Johanson-Blizzard syndrome.
(5) The total number of deaths was significantly higher (8%) in a "blizzard week" than in the preceding and subsequent (control) weeks (114.1 vs. 105.3 deaths per day).
(6) Death certificates in eastern Massachusetts after six blizzards in 1974--78, including the record blizzard of Feb. 6, 1978, were examined to identify the effect on mortality of these storms.
(7) Hirsi Ali, for instance, was treated to a series of encomiums and softball questions in her blizzard of US media interviews, from the New York Times to Fox News.
(8) During blizzards, I-80 sometimes closes altogether.
(9) Heavy snowfall in areas above 200 metres could lead to blizzard conditions across higher ground.
(10) In the literature, a wide range of intellectual abilities of children with the Johanson-Blizzard syndrome is reported.
(11) Thierry Marchand flew to New York for the Blizzard on a wing and a prayer hoping to secure an interview with Thierry Henry before his retirement.
(12) The National Weather Service said blizzard conditions were possible in eastern Massachusetts while much of the east coast will experience temperatures 10 to 25F below average (6-14C), along with “bitter wind chills”.
(13) This is an edited and updated version of a piece from the latest issue of The Blizzard .
(14) Jürgen Klinsmann's USA clinched three vital World Cup qualifying points against a spirited Costa Rica and a blizzard.
(15) So far more than 34,400 members have joined and we've collected a blizzard of pink underpants.
(16) The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for Cape Cod, coastal areas north and south of Boston and part of Maine as well as New York's Long Island, where up to 10 inches (0.25m) of snow could fall and winds could gust to 45mph.
(17) A blizzard of media interviews will then begin, before a 3pm meeting with senior management of the party.
(18) The Hateful Eight , shot in 70mm and about a motley crew of 19th century bounty hunters and criminals who take refuge in a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass to shelter from a blizzard, no doubt hopes to make it a hat-trick.
(19) ), which rose significantly by 22% in the blizzard week from 36.7 to 44.6 deaths per day, accounted for 90% of the excess total deaths.
(20) Late Thursday, Dante de Blasio, 16 , wrote in a message that escaped his private Facebook page that he was getting a blizzard of school cancellation requests.
Tornado
Definition:
(n.) A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(2) In 2009 the Saudi air force used UK-supplied Tornado fighter-bombers in attacks in Yemen which killed hundreds – possibly thousands – of civilians.
(3) Violent emotions, especially in teenagers, are like spring tornadoes: their departure is as sudden as their violent arrival.
(4) The Tornados, based at Akrotiri in Cyprus, rely on Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft to sustain long-distance air patrols.
(5) Banner says that her work progresses more by accident than by design, although she clearly works hard, spending long days alone in her studio with her dog, Olive (a mongrel or "Hackney orgy dog" who recently took a tumble through the hole in the floorboards around Tornado Nude).
(6) South Carolina recorded a high turnout of about 600,000 on a day of heavy rain and a tornado warning.
(7) The call to the UK is made because it is a major supplier of weapons to Saudi Arabia, including a recent consignment of 500lb Paveway IV bombs, used by Tornado and Typhoon fighter jets, which are manufactured and supplied by the UK arms company BAE Systems.
(8) The third potential casualty – RAF Marham, in Norfolk, the base of Tornados engaged in air strikes over Libya – will be saved.
(9) The failure to apologise to Corbyn seemed to bother the prime minister a great deal more than it did his opponents, as he went on to admit he didn’t have an exit strategy for military action; he didn’t have a clue if there were 70,000 moderate Syrian ground troops and he didn’t quite know what a couple of Tornados could bring to the party.
(10) Those hospitalized or deceased had statistically significantly more deep cuts, concussions, unconsciousness and broken bones than those with them at the time of the tornado who were not hospitalized or killed.
(11) However, although the Tornados are ready to begin air strikes, sources said the task of choosing appropriate targets – many of them moving and small – would be a challenge for intelligence-gatherers.
(12) Although the Americans have launched air strikes against Isis, the RAF Tornado jets dispatched to the region have only been involved in surveillance.
(13) If the Harriers do fall victim to the Tornados, there may be no suitable aircraft available to fly from the first carrier, the Queen Elizabeth, which is due to enter service in 2016.
(14) "That's where all the CGI stuff came from – the tornados, the birds, the rain.
(15) And, if that happens, many of the controversies which raged in 2009 – when her crushing world 800m title triumph was overshadowed by accusations and insinuations about her gender – will again swirl around Rio like a tornado.
(16) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
(17) A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said : “Tornado teams are not necessarily launched in response to violent incidents.
(18) The RAF Tornados, based in Britain’s base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, can fire radar-guided anti-armour Brimstone missiles, which are conservatively estimated to cost £100,000 each; heavier Paveway IV bombs, estimated at £30,000 apiece; and long-range Storm Shadow missiles, estimated at nearly £790,000 each.
(19) The Ministry of Justice has not yet released figures for the Tornado squads for 2016, but recent figures for the deployment of the national tactical response group which deals with more minor incidents including rooftop protests, showed they were being deployed more than 60 times a month last summer.
(20) Saying that a Tornado GR4 would have been flying anyway, so using it over Libya does not incur extra costs masks a number of facts.