How to Use windstorm in a Sentence

windstorm

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  • During windstorms, the trunks of falling trees take bites out of walls, and their limbs whisk stones down to the soil.
    — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • When a windstorm hits, simply wheel the greenhouse into a garage or shed and wait for the storm to pass.
    — Rachel Center, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2023
  • Before a severe windstorm on Sept. 7, the Beachie Creek Fire was just 469 acres.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Then came the element that set off the wildfires: a windstorm.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Castle said the flooding cleanup was coming to an end when the windstorm struck.
    — Julian Gill, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2019
  • KattiJo Deeter lay with her sled dogs as a windstorm raged across the ridges and drainages of the Topkok Hills.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • But the Aggies fizzled out as quickly as a match in a windstorm.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The third round of the AT&T National was played after a windstorm ripped through the area the previous night.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2020
  • King led the race with a one-hour head start from White Mountain that year, only to be battered by a windstorm in the dark of night.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But it hasn’t been unscathed: Last year, a freak windstorm took out a huge swath of mature trees, as if mowing the lawn.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • As a forecast windstorm arrived in late morning, fierce gusts of up to 50 mph pushed him around and kicked up sand and dust.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • No one camps in a desert to get a good night’s sleep — and ours felt more like trying to rest on a pile of rubble during a windstorm.
    — Danielle Pergament, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
  • An extreme windstorm that had been forecast for days was pushing down the West Coast.
    — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The fires spread during a windstorm on Monday, and Brown said hundreds of homes have been destroyed.
    — TheWeek, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The windstorm was the prelude for a winter storm that's forecast to hit on New Year's Eve and into the 1st of January.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Last year, a fierce windstorm swept through Claremont, downing some 300 trees.
    — Tilly MacAlister-Smith Mary Holland Dana Covit Mary Holland Kurt Soller Sara Lieberman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The crane toppled during a fierce windstorm, killing 29-year-old Kiersten Smith.
    — Jennifer Emily, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • But the derecho, a straight-line windstorm, was relentless.
    — NBC News, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Survive a windstorm, catch poachers, and even befriend a goat!
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Erin Mendenhall • Salt Lake City’s new mayor had one eventful year in office, from the earthquake to the pandemic to the protests to the windstorm.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The nursery has been closed most of the year after a huge windstorm felled trees and damaged other parts of the garden in February.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The windstorm grabbed the weather headlines this week in Utah, but the state set a dozen temperature records on Wednesday — record lows.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
  • There were no locations to go to when there was a snowstorm or a rainstorm or a windstorm or a dust storm or extreme heat.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2022
  • And with the coronavirus and the later windstorm, the seismic safety of schools was soon forgotten again.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • And as all those fires grew and grew, a windstorm arrived, turning them into a disaster.
    — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Like, hooking up in an ambulance during a windstorm, hot-and-heavy.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Even then, Hoogeveen wouldn’t give an estimate for when the last house that lost electricity in the windstorm would get power.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2020
  • The cemetery has been closed since a historic windstorm tore through northern Utah in September 2020.
    — Rebekah Wahlberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2021
  • The coming surge this week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, is expected to be the third windstorm in quick succession.
    — Marisa Iati, Andrew Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2019
  • It was constructed from a black walnut tree felled by a windstorm in Shimp’s cousin’s Medina yard.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022

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