How to Use typhoon in a Sentence

typhoon

noun

• Mawar was one of the strongest typhoons to hit Guam in decades.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
• During the typhoon, many of us sought shelter at the well for much of the day.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Months have gone by since the late 2014 typhoon rocked Hong Kong.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
• This would be the first time casinos have closed since a typhoon in 2018.
  — Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• The typhoon came at night after a heavy day of rough seas and high winds.
  — Rebecca Saunders, CNN, 11 July 2021
• The Philippines may have been lucky with Goni, the 18th typhoon to strike the country this year.
  — Jason Gutierrez, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2020
• The death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year has reached at least 146.
  — Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2021
• At the time, forecasters said the typhoon, named Surigae, could bring a small amount of rain to the Bay Area by the end of April.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2021
• In the northwest Pacific, the storm is known as a typhoon.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 July 2020
• Waves of anxiety knocked me about like a dinghy in a typhoon.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Ready to ride through the typhoon head-on, the team tied everything down and waited.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 23 Aug. 2021
• In August, a strong typhoon swept the pumpkin into the sea.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 20 Dec. 2021
• Molave, known as Typhoon Quinta in the Philippines, was the 17th typhoon to hit the country this year.
  — Reuters, CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
• The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year rose to at least 208 people on Sunday.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 20 Dec. 2021
• The quake that summer came just days after the largest typhoon recorded in 25 years struck Japan.
  — Ben Dooley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2021
• But in the second half, three major typhoons – as hurricanes are known in this part of the world – stirred up the ocean.
  — Noel Gutiérrez Brizuela, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
• Any sort of rain — typhoon, tropical storm, or even light sprinkling — will be a wild swing from the first three days of the Games.
  — NBC News, 23 July 2021
• Rai, the international name for the storm (the local name is Odette), was the 15th typhoon to hit the country this year.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• Hong Kong stocks were closed last Friday because of a typhoon.
  — Laura He, CNN, 4 Sep. 2023
• The typhoon was already producing waves up to 45 feet in the ocean near the island on Tuesday.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 24 May 2023
• What makes a storm a hurricane, a typhoon or a cyclone?
  — New York Times, 20 May 2020
• Another typhoon is forecast to pass through the area where the cargo ship sank in the coming days.
  — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• Typically five to eight typhoons hit the city each year, but not all bring traffic and schools to a halt.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Asia, 18 June 2024
• This could weaken the force of the ocean surface wind, and so potentially weaken the force of a typhoon.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Oct. 2023
• As is typical for fall storms in Alaska, this one was a typhoon at one point.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2022
• The Hong Kong stock exchange canceled trading on Monday due to the city’s typhoon alert.
  — Yifan Wang, WSJ, 17 July 2023
• The Philippines sits on a typhoon belt and typically gets about 20 storms a year.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• This Thursday's show begins with news of two storms: a typhoon in Vietnam and a hurricane in the U.S.
  — CNN, 28 Oct. 2020
• The metropolitan area of 13 million people is prone to floods and typhoons and is battling a rapid rise in sea levels.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 26 July 2024
• Taiwan’s markets returned to trade after being closed for two days due to a typhoon, with the Taiwan Weighted Index plunging 3.33%.
  — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024