(n.) A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the system had been successfully deployed at depths of 365 metres after hurricane Katrina, but not by a BP crew.
(2) Why, for example, would a meteorologist fail to correctly predict where a hurricane was going to make landfall, or why might a doctor fail to figure out what was going on inside my son and fix it?
(3) New employment data today suggested that hurricane Sandy is hurting already tenuous US job growth.
(4) This is why we have seen these horrible events [like typhoon Haiyan and hurricane Sandy] in the past few years, with many people affected.
(5) Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm."
(6) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(7) Later on Monday, Obama made a eve-of-convention visit to the flooded Louisiana coast to console victims of hurricane Isaac.
(8) They talk football, and “all the things Joe has been through, the hurricanes in Jamaica, how the winds made the fruit crash from the trees,” says Dean.
(9) Abnormal events such as Hurricane Sandy , which cost $65bn (£40bn) and the 2011-12 US drought, which cost $35bn (£21bn) may be just foretasters of the price to be paid.
(10) Although the scientists said they were still unsure whether a warming climate would result in an increase in the frequency of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones, there was a stark warning for the northern hemisphere, and areas of Europe and North America where currently hurricanes hardly ever happen.
(11) The biggest number headed to Houston , a 350-mile drive along the Gulf coast and itself no stranger to hurricanes.
(12) Climate change is making these sorts of storms more common, much as it is making Sandy-like superstorms and unusually intense hurricanes more common.” Those storms were not created by climate change, Mann said.
(13) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(14) "It's a very, very large system," Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center, told Reuters.
(15) Rain may be coming soon, thanks to hurricane Isaac, but it's too late for America's corn crop.
(16) Photograph: YouTube Bookended by the flooding of the city of New Orleans after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina – and by which the city’s black residents were disproportionately affected – and a black child in a hoodie dancing opposite a police line and a quick cut to graffiti words “stop shooting us”, Beyoncé morphs into several archetypical southern black women.
(17) We've come through one of the worst disasters in our history, Hurricane Katrina, and are now almost fully recovered and much better than ever in almost all areas.
(18) "The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the north-east – in lost lives, lost homes and lost business – brought the stakes of next Tuesday's presidential election into sharp relief," Bloomberg wrote.
(19) Storms lash and floods swamp, but the hurricane of cuts outlined by this week's grim report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies will cause infinitely greater devastation to millions for many years to come, like nothing before.
(20) 10.46am GMT A handout photograph provided by the US air force on 31 October shows aerial views of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast, taken during a search and rescue mission.
Lightning
Definition:
(n.) A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.
(n.) The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
(vb. n.) Lightening.
Example Sentences:
(1) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(2) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(3) We went on holiday to Cyprus and the plane got hit by lightning.
(4) The subjective signs of the syndrome are floating 'moths', photopsias presenting as a 'lateral lightning', sudden appearance of a central macula (central positive scotoma).
(5) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
(6) Financial Services Authority chief executive Hector Sants described bonuses as the "lightning rod" of the public's lack of trust in bankers.
(7) The literature relating to the neurology of lightning strike is briefly reviewed.
(8) One instance occurred while the victim was using the telephone; the other victim received a direct lightning strike to the head.
(9) These teams open up with five goals, three of which came at lightning speed.
(10) There are various reasons some musicians don't like Spotify, although the company is something of a lightning rod for criticism of all streaming services.
(11) Bruce, who believes Sessègnon could help to plug the gap left by striker Darren Bent, said: "Stéphane can play on the left, on the right, through the middle – he's lightning quick and he's a match-winner.
(12) Although uncommon, symptoms of lightning-like electric sensations spreading into both arms, down the dorsal spine, and into both legs on neck flexion following head and neck irradiation, causes great concern in both the patient and the physician.
(13) A variety of electrocardiographic changes have been documented previously in association with lightning injury; however, the changes in this patient have not previously been reported.
(14) He again complained of severe lightning pain after the successful spinal anesthesia with the same anesthetic solution.
(15) Jamie Vardy started to score the goals that his lightning speed of foot and monstrous effort promised he might.
(16) Cameron can't stab Nick in the back over AV and keep using him as an all-purpose lightning conductor."
(17) The importance of electrophysiological and CT scan examination in the diagnosis and etiology of abnormalities caused in the eye by lightning is emphasized.
(18) As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer.
(19) A case is described in which the patient had been struck by lightning, with involvement of one eye and the visual pathways.
(20) Emergency physicians and staff are usually the first to evaluate and manage victims of lightning strikes.