(n.) A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.
Example Sentences:
(1) It sounds like self-congratulation for disbelieving incorrect forecasts of rain, then proudly stepping into a hailstorm without an umbrella.
(2) Link to video Next, try to ignore the hailstorm of crude messages blasted from David Cameron’s multimedia machine.
(3) With the verdict uncertain but the stadium crew hovering on the court’s edges, ready to set up the court for the trophy presentation, hundreds of fans sent padded seat covers soaring into the air all over the stadium, creating a scene that resembled an orange hailstorm.
(4) After that we had to show it worked in the wild and could withstand hailstorms and the like."
(5) KSÍ is made up largely of former soccer players, including Sigurvinsson, who remember all too well spending the interminable winters indoors, with limited access to outdoor gravel pitches where gale-force winds and impromptu hailstorms infringed upon the few hours of daylight.
(6) Not only can a theatre be a perfect shelter from a passing hailstorm, but it can provide vital emotional shelter as well.
Rainstorm
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That means floods, droughts, heatwaves and heavy rainstorms are much more likely, as global warming gathers pace.
(2) Another risk is to Wi-Fi internet access and other communications because higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.
(3) As for the rainstorm in the US, its fatal unpredictability was shown when a Thursday morning downpour dumped 4 inches on Spartanburg, South Carolina, causing flash floods that submerged several cars.
(4) A dangerous rainstorm drenching the US east coast brought more misery on Sunday to South Carolina , cutting power to thousands, forcing hundreds of water rescues and closing scores of roads because of floodwaters.
(5) Presenting the report, the secretary of state for the environment, Caroline Spelman, said that higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.
(6) A deadly rainstorm led to tragedy and much destruction this week in Salgar, Colombia .
(7) Weather officials said the mountains and the Antelope Valley foothills north-east of Los Angeles were under the most risk, but there was only a small chance of rainstorms like those that prompted flooding in California on Thursday.
(8) The experiments reported in this paper were designed to examine the collection efficiency of gummed paper for wet deposition of several types of soluble and insoluble radioactive contaminants under conditions similar to those found during natural rainstorms.
(9) The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) Justice Ginsburg: 'Throwing out preclearance...is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet' June 25, 2013 She appeals to Congress' right to reauthorize the legislation (as it did most recently based in 2006) on its own judgment, based on current conditions, and lists a number of recent examples of where discrimination has taken place.
(10) The pigs are prodigious diggers and tropical island's torrential rainstorms then wash the soil out to the waters that are home to renowned sharks and corals.
(11) Using surface concentration and reaction rate as the main criteria for the feasibility of condensation reactions, four types of prebiotic environments were analyzed: (1) an ocean-sediment system, (2) a dehydrated lagoon bed produced by evaporation, (3) the surface of a frozen sediment, and (4) a fluctuating system where hydration (rainstorms, tidal variations, flooding) and dehysration (evaporation) take place in a cyclic manner.
(12) Europe, overall, was warmer than usual but the heat turned quickly to massive rainstorms.
(13) The mudslides that accompany tropical rainstorms often leave thousands homeless and forced to seek shelter in informal settlements.
(14) A rainstorm an hour before kick-off had softened the ground at the Lamex Stadium.
(15) OCLP closed its final polling station at the university's student union building at 10pm local time on Sunday, amid intermittent rainstorms.
(16) At least 169 were killed by a massive rainstorm in the summer of 2012.
(17) It was almost midnight, curfew time, and a rainstorm unleashed thunder and lightning over Ferguson, the Missouri town rocked by a week of race-fuelled violence.
(18) But as Justice Ginsburg wrote in her striking dissent, ‘Throwing out pre-clearance when it has worked and is continuing to work … is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.’
(19) But Feinstein reserves great praise for a key scene in which Stone and Firth shelter from a rainstorm together: it possesses an "aching beauty" and is "pure magic".
(20) The end of the epidemic coincided with a heavy rainstorm.