How to Use windstorm in a Sentence

windstorm

noun

• And this crazy windstorm came in and took the entire set out.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 9 July 2024
• And last summer, a windstorm knocked down a tree limb, hit the top of their home and left a gash in the roof.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
• The storm In July 2017, a windstorm caused the library's roof to shake and release dust.
  — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 13 June 2018
• 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
• A hail and windstorm on Tuesday evening swept through Boise.
  — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, 16 May 2017
• 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
• The tree fell as a strong windstorm passed through the area, generating wind gusts of up to 71 mph.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• This photo, taken March 2, shows how far away from the road the lake moved during the windstorm.
  — Katherine Itoh, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
• 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
• A windstorm wiped out some oaks and firs, opening a hole in their forest shade.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 2 June 2017
• 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
• Back in the 1990s, a strong windstorm blew bald eaglets out of their nest in Yellowstone.
  — National Geographic, 24 May 2016
• 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
• The loamy soil became over-saturated and the top heavy trees blew over in a windstorm.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 16 Feb. 2018
• There had been a very large pine tree knocked down in a windstorm a couple of weeks earlier.
  — Steven Potter, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2016
• 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
• Twenty-five years ago this week, a tornado ripped through downtown Salt Lake City, killing one, injuring 80 and leaving a path of destruction through a city considered all but immune to the world's most powerful windstorm.
  — Erin Alberty, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
• And experts say these kinds of damages could become more prevalent as severe weather events, especially windstorms and flooding, become more common or more powerful.
  — Genna Contino, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024