How to Use hailstone in a Sentence

hailstone

noun

• In August, a new record was set for the state’s largest hailstone.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2019
• In some spots, hailstones were likened in size to peas or pebbles.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
• Likewise, to form hailstones, there has to be cold air.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
• The hailstones can grow as cold water droplets collide with them and freeze.
  — NBC News, 2 July 2019
• This storm’s hailstones gave the crew something to worry about.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
• Brady wasn’t sure of the exact location of the hailstone in Hondo.
  — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
• In May, a massive hailstone spanning more than 5 inches fell in the state.
  — Max Cohen, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2019
• The prime evidence came a-clattering in the form of hailstones.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• Gina Brown tweeted photos of the 5.5-inch hailstone that fell in her front yard.
  — Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2022
• Germany experienced a freak hailstorm over the weekend, and up to a foot of hailstones piled up in the streets.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The planets push through the icy rubble like a snowplough shouldering its way through a pile of hailstones.
  — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, 27 Nov. 2019
• Even small hailstones can have an impact when there’s enough volume.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• In this part of the country walnut-size hailstones are as destructive as a swarm of locusts.
  — Kathryn Phillips, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• The hailstones were bigger than a baseball but smaller than a grapefruit.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• The record-setting hailstone fell that made Coffeyville, KS famous.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• Someone that told us that there were (4.5 inch hailstones), but there’s nothing there to verify it.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• Possibly the largest was hailstones the size of baseballs reported by a storm chaser in the Cullman area.
  — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• In some locations, hailstones were as large as baseballs, Laubach said.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
• In events like this, each hailstone contains so much water that fewer stones end up forming.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• The hail was accompanied by heavy rain, which washed the hailstones into huge piles in low-lying areas.
  — NBC News, 2 July 2019
• Rows of tornadoes rip up the landscape, tsunami-sized waves sweep through cities, massive hailstones crash through car windows, and flash-frozen birds fall out of the sky.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
• Take a look at the giant hailstone that fell near Salado late this afternoon.
  — Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2022
• The main threat from the storm system, though, will be hail, possibly including hailstones as large or larger than hen’s eggs.
  — Julie Bosman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• And that’s just a hailstone’s throw away (.3 inches) from the current record for the water year, which runs from October through September.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2017
• Could Cullman claim the title for home of Alabama's biggest hailstone on record?
  — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• In one warning that was issued for Kansas City, the Weather Service said the storm could produce apple-sized hailstones and wind gusts of 60 miles per hour.
  — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• In Argentina, huge hailstones threaten to break records.
  — CNN, 4 May 2020
• The weather service in Huntsville said a 5.25-inch hailstone from Cullman is being reviewed and could become the largest on record in Alabama.
  — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Hailstones don’t form or grow very big without massive amounts of air billowing up from below.
  — John Ingold, The Denver Post, 15 May 2017
• Italians are frazzled as a summer of incinerating heat waves lingers and fear mounts over the return of hailstones the size of handballs.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024