(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.
Randy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Randy denton (@RandyHusker) Scarface showing on Spike TV right now.Every channel buried in white powder.
(2) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(3) The Yankees president, Randy Levine, and Cashman had a conference call with Tim Lentych, the head athletic trainer at the player development complex in Tampa; Rodriguez; and Jordan Siev, co-head of the US commercial litigation group at Reed Smith.
(4) This week people around the internet have taken to photoshopping WWE wrestler Randy Orton’s famous head slam move on to videos of people falling over.
(5) When she refuses to watch it, Randy vomits masticated Member Berries on both of them.
(6) On the defensive side of the football, the South Florida club also added former Houston Texans DT Earl Mitchell (4-years, $16m), who’ll go someway to replacing outgoing veterans Paul Soliai and Randy Starks.
(7) State they’re in This was the season American MBNA credit-card scion Randy Lerner finally announced his Villa venture was over and he wanted to sell.
(8) Several clubs increased their wage bills by £6m or less but Aston Villa actually reduced theirs by £3m from £72m as the American owner, Randy Lerner, sought to wrestle their finances into shape ready for a sale of the club.
(9) This year Randy Ryder will meet his mother for the first time.
(10) Villa Ownership US holding company Reform Acquisitions LLC, sold by Randy Lerner in June 2016 to Chinese businessman Tony Xia, who owns the shares via Zhejiang Ruikang (Recon) Investment Co, based in Hong Kong.
(11) MacDonald , who was interviewed by Randy Lerner, Villa's owner, on Wednesday, has indicated that he would be receptive to working in partnership with a more experienced figure.
(12) Andy Hunter Aston Villa 13th Money to spend Three years ago Randy Lerner smashed Villa’s transfer record when he sanctioned the signing of Darren Bent for a deal rising to £24m.
(13) Large jazz ensemble album: Night in Calisia, Randy Brecker, Wlodek Pawlik Trio and Kalisz Philharmonic.
(14) I saw the video of Garner being arrested, it was horrible,” said Randi.
(15) Profumo was an oddity – a randy politician à la JFK in a dry-balled, homophobic, strait-laced Tory administration.
(16) He told LBC radio: "I am hoping that the real predators are the ones we are going to find out about: the Glitters of this world, the Saviles of this world, not people that were randy young pop stars in the 1960s, 70s and 80s even, that had women throwing themselves at them everywhere they went, because that is a whole different area and a whole different situation.
(17) Today the Birmingham Mail makes one simple, stark request to the Aston Villa board: sack the manager.” Yet his departure still comes as a surprise given the support Lambert, who won the Champions League as a player with Borussia Dortmund in 1997, had from owner Randy Lerner.
(18) Aaron Sorkin publishes letter urging daughter to fight after Trump win Read more The other plotlines are more complicated: while Randy and Mr Garrison have been (mostly) obsessed with the election this season, rest of the town in up in arms about online harassment.
(19) On Monday the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine went to James E Rothman (US), Randy W Schekman (US) and Thomas C Südhof (Germany) for their exquisite work on how cells organise and transport molecules such as hormones, enzymes and neurotransmitters.
(20) Randy Workman saw intimate details of the death penalty that are kept from the public eye in the United States.