Example Sentences

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The issue for rescuers is that when a boat goes down in a tornado-like storm, everything that is not attached will either fall or float, Mr Thomas explains.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024

Perhaps the most seemingly bizarre detail: Firefighters battling the wildfires along the California-Nevada border have noticed so-called "fire whirls," or wildfire plums that spin with naturally rotating air to form tornado-like spinning funnels.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2023

It was torched just two years ago by the deadly Carr Fire - infamously remembered for producing a huge tornado-like fire whirl.

From Washington Times • Sep. 29, 2020

“This fire vortex, this pretty terrifying tornado-like feature, and I don’t say that lightly … was made possible by the extreme heat produced by this fire,” Swain said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2018

Certainly no one of good sense would sail headlong into the whirling, tornado-like temper of Lady Constance Ashton, if it could be helped.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood