How to Use haboob in a Sentence

haboob

noun

• Several videos showing the haboob rolling over beaches were shot on the northern shores of the Paraná River, which is about 10 miles wide, to the east of Ayolas.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
• The haboob was caused by a variety of factors, the first and primary one being the strong cold front that dropped temperatures by 32 degrees in just two hours.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2019
• The culprit was a towering dust storm, along the leading edge of a vigorous thunderstorm complex, known as a haboob.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• Then suburban sprawl swept in like a desert haboob, leaving in its wake planned communities and malls and farmers with their pockets full.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 25 Feb. 2015
• Joanne was the winner of the adult category with her haboob-themed, vanilla pudding filled doughnut topped with ground up vanilla cookies.
  — Maureen Bohannon, azcentral, 6 June 2019
• An apocalyptic-looking dust storm, or a haboob, moved through Denver on Wednesday night, turning area skies from blue to brown in a matter of minutes.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2019
• This massive haboob was caught on tape in August in Southern California.
  — Jim Foerster, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• The haboob at times towered about a mile high and traveled nearly 200 miles, carving a path from the Arizona desert into southeastern California.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 12 July 2018
• The groundbreaking ceremony was held on a morning when a haboob moved through the southeast Valley, obscuring some structures on the Chandler campus.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2021
• Dangerous lightning, desert flash flooding and haboobs (giant dust storms) are all hazards associated with the monsoon.
  — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
• The haboob at times towered about a mile high and traveled nearly 200 miles, carving a path into southeastern California before fizzling out near Imperial.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 30 Dec. 2019
• Spotters reported a haboob, a kind of dust storm generated by sinking air from a thunderstorm, near the California-Nevada border, according to the weather service’s Las Vegas office.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• Another weather term applicable to California is a haboob.
  — Jim Foerster, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024