Thunderstorm Sentence Examples

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  • She shook like a leaf in a thunderstorm, her warm brown eyes wide and tears streaming down her cheeks.

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  • The number of thunderstorm days is probably a less exact measure of the relative intensity of thunderstorms than statistics as to the number of persons killed annually by lightning per million of the population.

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  • At first she thought it was the thunderstorm she'd fallen asleep listening to.

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  • The heavy thunderstorm went on well into the night.

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  • Thus the rising of the sun, a thunderstorm, an earthquake are natural "phenomena."

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  • After waiting some time for the erection of a spire at Philadelphia, by means of which he hoped to bring down the electricity of a thunderstorm, he conceived the idea of sending up a kite among thunder-clouds.

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  • With the exception of a narrow strip along the Canadian frontier, thunderstorm frequency is fairly high over the whole of the United States to the east of the tooth meridian.

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  • In company with his son, Franklin raised the kite like a common one, in the first thunderstorm, which happened in the month of June 1752.

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  • Who would be visiting at this hour during a thunderstorm?

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  • I knew it, it was the odour that always precedes a thunderstorm, and a nameless fear clutched at my heart.

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  • By the end of the first week she had to face another enemy — a thunderstorm.

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  • A thunderstorm with large hail missed Stanley by a few miles.

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  • Shower and thunderstorm activity began to increase later on the 2nd.

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  • A thunderstorm, with hail and intense cold, increased their confusion, and on Brennus himself being wounded they took to flight, pursued by the Greeks all the way back to Thermopylae.

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  • Otherwise, this is a rather grim building inside; and not surprising, given the small windows and the thunderstorm outside.

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  • The power swirling in the air around her grew as she neared Damian's door, and she was reminded of the tension in the air before a thunderstorm.

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  • Some delay was occasioned by a thunderstorm; but, as this passed over, the guns opened and the Old Guard and Milhaud's cuirassiers proceeded to form up opposite to Ligny.

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  • By the end of the first week she had to face another enemy — a thunderstorm.

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  • My arrival-time at Luqa coincided with a massive thunderstorm complete with spectacular sheet lightning.

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  • Truth has become a teardrop in a thunderstorm of propaganda, and unless we act soon, the thunderstorm will drown us all.

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  • Took the bus back to Helsinki and arrived in a torrential thunderstorm.

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  • The morning of 10 th thankfully brought more tranquil weather but a passing thunderstorm still threatened.

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  • A freak thunderstorm at the tea interval washed out any chance of further play.

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  • The same party got attacked by an afternoon thunderstorm on their second day out.

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  • In most cases the figures are based on the number of days of thunder at a particular station, or at the average station of a country; but the second set Table Annual Variation of Thunderstorms. average annual number of thunderstorm days to be respectively 6.4 and Io.

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  • Von Bezold (81) in an earlier memoir presented data analogous to Steffens', seemingly accepting them as representing a true increase in thunderstorm destructiveness.

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  • He returned to Switzerland in July 1788, cherishing vague schemes of fresh literary activity; but genuine sorrow caused by the death of his friend Deyverdun interfered with steady work, nor was it easy for him to fix on a new subject which should be at once congenial and proportioned to his powers; while the premonitory mutterings of the great thunderstorm of the French Revolution, which reverberated in hollow echoes even through ' An anonymous pamphlet, entitled Observations on the three last volumes of the Roman History, appeared in 1788; Disney's Sermon, with Strictures, in 1790; and Whitaker's Review, in 1791.

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  • Another scorcher today, but if we get lucky, there might be a thunderstorm later.

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  • The rescue effort evolved into a fiasco when a thunderstorm rolled into town.

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  • Try these indoor games the next time a thunderstorm rolls through.

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  • You don't want your plants standing in water after a summer thunderstorm.

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  • Plus size fleece jackets offer both comfort and warmth on those unpredictable days when spring rains sprinkle raindrops throughout the day or a thunderstorm breaks loose.

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  • Considered the most violent of all types of atmospheric storms, a tornado is a column of air that reaches from a thunderstorm, or the cloud base, down to the ground.

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  • Thunderstorm is in The Covenant and it provides all enemies with a higher rank.

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  • Persons should also seek shelter indoors during a thunderstorm to avoid being struck by lightning.

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  • Additionally, if you happen to get caught in a downpour, or a thunderstorm, a cardigan can help remove some of the chill that comes with a temperature drop.

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  • Have you ever smelled a difference in the air at the base of a waterfall or after a lightning-charged thunderstorm passes through?

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  • Once the number of positively charged particles in the air diminishes, the air in the room will smell cleaner and crisper, like it does outside after a thunderstorm passes through.

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  • Scents include "Beach", "Thunderstorm", "Mineral Springs", "Ocean", "Pima Cotton", and "Mountain Retreat".

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  • It starts with sultry tropical rain, moves on to a babbling brook, energizes with a torrential thunderstorm, and closes out with calming ocean surf.

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  • The body was made of silk to enable it to bear the violence and wet of a thunderstorm.

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  • One hour ago the daily thunderstorm let loose deluging everything with tropical rain.

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  • Marvel as they brave a thunderstorm for your listening pleasure, and laugh as they run out of things to say at the end.

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  • The Thunderbolt models also received the Thunderstorm engine to round out an impressive offering of 1998 models.

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  • Numerous attempts have been made to find periodic variations in thunderstorm frequency.

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  • The pursuit, too, was carried out in the midst of a tropical thunderstorm which broke at the roar of the opening cannonade, and very considerably retarded the French pursuit.

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  • In this instance there seems little difference in the hour of maximum, the distinguishing feature being the great concentration of thunderstorm occurrence at Agustia between noon and 6 P.M.

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