hailstorm
Americannoun
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hailstorms
plural
noun
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Origin of hailstorm
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"Or a big hailstorm in September and then the insurance will reimburse us," he joked.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
A chorus of boos—boo-birds were on this team all afternoon—pummeled the field like a hailstorm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
On Saturday, a rare tornado and a hailstorm swept neighboring Guangzhou city, a production hub in southern China, killing five and injuring 33.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
Large hailstones were seen covering roads in the United Arab Emirates, after a rare hailstorm struck the region.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
The day of Uncle Edisto’s funeral, we’d had a morning hailstorm and a broken punch bowl, so I was glad to greet the sun.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
More than a third, or 40%, of U.S. data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas, and over a quarter in areas subject to large hailstorms, according to Swiss Re.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Heavy rains and hailstorms had struck south-west France on Monday night.
From BBC ● May 20, 2025
Many areas of the Great Plains were still bracing for bruising hailstorms, as a weeklong string of severe weather continued through the holiday weekend.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2024
Floods and hailstorms in Italy, Greece and central eastern European countries inflicted a 3.7-percentage point hit to Generali's combined ratio in the nine months through September.
From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2023
Winds and ocean currents, hailstorms and rain, sliding glaciers, flowing rivers, and falling cascades are the direct offspring of solar heat.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
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