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hurricane

A hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone, which is a storm system that has a low pressure center, many thunderstorms, and strong winds. The hurricane was very dangerous when it hit land. Hurricanes sometimes come to places like Florida, and they can break trees and houses.

hurricane

a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)

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Simple sentences

The death toll from the hurricane climbed to 200.
Victims of the hurricane received financial aid from the government.
After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.
A category 5 hurricane causes maximum damage.
The American news is reporting that Hurricane Irene is as big as Europe, which is a bit of an exaggeration.
Irene is from the Gulf of Mexico. She is a hurricane.
Tom's house was destroyed by a hurricane.
The hurricane survivors were allotted adequate food provisions for their basic nourishment.
Hurricane Sandy is coming.
The hurricane damaged the small house.
In spite of the hurricane, the ship reached port.
It's a miracle that he survived the hurricane.
There wasn't a hurricane, but the house doesn't have a roof.
Some weather forecasters predicted a hurricane.
Tom's house was destroyed by the hurricane.
Tom's home was destroyed by the hurricane.
What is a hurricane?

Movie subtitles

I'm sorry, sir, but there's a hurricane blowing down here and you'll have to talk a little louder.
It's a hurricane!
That one diving is a Hurricane.
The hurricane's all over, Mummy.
Hurricane's on its way.
Hey, pal. Getting ready for the hurricane?
What all happens in a hurricane?
I hear a hurricane blows off roofs and puts the snatch on people.
And get caught out in that hurricane?
Gonna have a hurricane?
The hurricane.
What hurricane?
You can beat the hurricane out.
Can cars get through during a hurricane?
It's a tornado, honey. A hurricane.
Did you feel a spark that swept over you like a hurricane and threw you to the ground, but you bounced and floated over treetops?
Spark? Hurricane?
The year of the hurricane. 1 940, that was.
Regular hurricane weather.
I hear a hurricane blows off roofs and puts the snatch on people. And they all fly around in the sky together. Is that right?
What I'm gonna ask you to do, it ain't gonna make much sense. but then what's sensible about a flood or a hurricane? - Nothing.
Hailstorm, rainstorm, windstorm, a hurricane.
It's like a hurricane swept through my papers and jumbled everything up!
It's a hurricane! Help!
Yes, the hurricane cellar.
The Hurricane Dwarf.
Ah, a hurricane.
Has a hurricane out there!
Some Hurricane out ofjuice, very likely.
Haven't seen him since my little escapade with a burning Hurricane.
Best I can give you for that is old Hurricane, son.
No, we don't need a hurricane.
My wings carry me with the speed of a hurricane.
And in Arabian hurricane.

News and current affairs

They point to worsening income inequality, as images beamed worldwide from post-hurricane New Orleans illustrated all too clearly.
Annan and Gurría also neglected to note that global Accumulated Cyclone Energy, an index for total hurricane activity, is hovering at the lowest values seen since the 1970's.
In fact, the US currently is experiencing the longest absence of intense landfall hurricanes since records began in 1900, while the adjusted damage cost for the US during this period, including Hurricane Sandy, has fallen slightly.
Using classic economic valuations of everything from lost lives, bad health, and illiteracy to wetlands destruction and increased hurricane damage from global warming, the economists show how much each problem costs.
Concern that the levees might break in the midst of a powerful hurricane was widespread among scientists, engineers, and emergency-preparedness experts.
Yet Bush apparently did not know of these concerns, even days after the hurricane destroyed the levees and flooded the city.
There is a simple fact on display here, one that goes well beyond this particular hurricane, and even this particular president.
Intensity measures a hurricane's force, which includes wind speeds, and there has been some recorded increase.
The biggest change, however, has been in the duration of hurricanes: how many days each hurricane lasts.
The total energy of a hurricane is found by multiplying the intensity of the hurricane by its duration.
Hurricane Katrina is a wakeup call, not only for the US but for the world.
Like millions of other people in New York City, I heard Hurricane Sandy rattling my windows and battering my doors.
In this sense, Hurricane Sandy was like gun violence.
Indeed, Hurricane Katrina was the third most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the US.
Intensity measures a hurricane's force, which includes wind speeds, and there has been some recorded increase. The biggest change, however, has been in the duration of hurricanes: how many days each hurricane lasts.
Duration has risen markedly around the world. The total energy of a hurricane is found by multiplying the intensity of the hurricane by its duration.
The US Federal Reserve faces a dilemma, for it needs to continue raising interest rates in the face of a hurricane-devastated economy.
Scenes from Hurricane Katrina, the Asian tsunami, and now the Haitian earthquake were shown over and over again on all television news broadcasts.
Fine, but what happens to people, like the poor of hurricane-struck New Orleans, who don't own boats?
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people remain in temporary shelters.
Does this mean that a hurricane could hit world financial markets at any moment?

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