(n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
(n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
(n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
(n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
(v. t.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
(v. i.) To raise a tempest.
(v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.
(v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
Example Sentences:
(1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(2) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(3) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A storm driven wave crashes against the sea wall at Saltcoats.
(5) There is a real danger in ascribing New Orleans’ situation over the last decade to the storm.
(6) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
(7) These are all steps we can take and we’re in a much better place to weather this storm because of the action we’ve taken over the last four years.
(8) We present a case of a natural death following thyroid storm in which marked thymic hyperplasia was present.
(9) His comments provoked a storm on social media, with political tensions riding high as Erdoğan prepares to stand in presidential elections on 10 August.
(10) Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm."
(11) If the extra heat stored in the oceans is released into the atmosphere, then the severity of storms will inevitably increase.
(12) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
(13) They can expect to be swamped more often by tidal surges, battered by ever stronger typhoons and storms, and hit by deeper droughts.
(14) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
(15) A State Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman, Laura Southard, said the storm had the potential to be a "historic ice event".
(16) A drowning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, also was linked to the storm.
(17) Collapsed houses lie on the beach after a storm surge in Hemsby.
(18) Eoin McLennan-Murray, a former president of the PGA, said in February 2014 that staff shortages and increasing numbers of incidents were creating a “perfect storm” that would destabilise prisons .
(19) For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2 .
(20) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
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.