How to use tornado in a sentence

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• The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright.From the entry tear
• The tornado is finally losing its punch.From the entry punch
• The roof was blown off by the tornado.From the entry roof
• Through sheer determination, we managed to escape from the tornado.From the entry determination
• Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.From the entry slab
• The tornado flung the man around like a rag doll.From the entry rag doll
• The tornado ripped through northern Nebraska.From the entry rip
• Before the tornado we had a dining room with a skylight; after it we had a roofless home with too much ventilation.From the entry roofless
• After the tornado struck, the town mandated that the owners of the most badly damaged buildings pull a permit to do the required repairs.From the entry pull a permit
• I need help concentrating and recovering from what we call ‘tornado brain’ in Joplin.2024 February 19, Jennifer M. First, Megan Carnahan, Mansoo Yu, Sangwon Lee, J. Brian Houston, quoting anonymized tornado survivor…. From the entry tornado brain
• Every time we hear the rumble of the storm, we think and hear the tornado happening.2024 February 19, Jennifer M. First, Megan Carnahan, Mansoo Yu, Sangwon Lee, J. Brian Houston, quoting anonymized tornado survivor…. From the entry tornado brain
• Aria spun through them, slicing them like the razor-bladed winds of a tornado.2021, Kydd Wycked, King of Kings, Cruel Genesis: Part 1: Existence to Extinction. From the entry razor-bladed
• Derechos have winds as powerful as those of some hurricanes and tornadoes.2016, Bill Streever, And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind, Hachette, unnumbered page. From the entry derecho
• This doesn’t mean that you pretend the tornado in Kansas didn’t happen.2010, Teresa Griffith, “Perspective of Time”, in Love Your Skeletons, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], published January 2012 (3rd…. From the entry apocalypse
• It's a tornado not reaching the top—the bottom of the cloud base.1986, Doppler Radar Systems and the Wind-shear Aviation Problem. From the entry dustnado
• Bronwen is transformed into “a wild tornado” hotly pursued by two Messrs.1975 November 16, “Moment of Truth”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry presto
• “Wanna come along?” she’d demand with a moolike bellow, followed by a tornado of laughter.1963, Country Beautiful, page 56. From the entry moolike
• A multiday severe weather outbreak is possible Monday through Wednesday, increasing the already-above average tornado count even higher.2024 May 5, Allison Chinchar, “Multiday severe weather threat could continue tornado streak this week”, in CNN, archived from the original…. From the entry multiday
• The Zelda-like recorder, for example, creates a tornado that, in carrying Xandir away, also destroys a trailer park.2023, Karen M. Cook, “Xandir P. Whifflebottom, Video Game … Hero?”, in Lisa Scoggin, Dana Plank, editors, The Intersection of Animation…. From the entry Zelda-like
• Here's an example: Carmel's City Council recently removed funding for the mayor's $5 million carousel, i.e., one super-expensive horse tornado.2018 May 14, Curtis Honeycutt, “Grammar Guy: Battle of the Latin abbreviations”, in Gaston Gazette. From the entry horse tornado
• "Horse tornado" is so much more metal than "carousel."2017 July 17, Madison Medeiros, quoting Correct Names (@CorrectNames), “You'll Love This Account That Documents The "Real Names" Of…. From the entry horse tornado
• Sophie lost everything she owned in a tornado and now suffers from lilapsophobia—fear of tornadoes—so she re-located from Oklahoma to Florida.2014, Christopher Cortman, Harold Shinitzky, Laurie-Ann O'Connor, Take Control of Your Anxiety: A Drug-Free Approach to Living a Happy…. From the entry lilapsophobia
• The tornado could be added to the list.2008 spring, Patrick J. Crerand, “The Tornadic Impulse in the Short Fiction of Michael Martone and William Gass: A Tornadic Utterance with…. From the entry hierophanic
• This is “climatespeak” for stating that no changes in hurricanes, thunderstorms, hail, floods, tornadoes, and the like have been observed.2002, Ronald Bailey, Global Warming and Other Eco-myths. From the entry climatespeak
• They watched the supercell that spawned the F5 killer that struck Oklahoma City spit out one tornado after another.1999 May 11, William K. Stevens, “Oklahoma Tornado Offers Hints Of How a Killer Storm Is Born”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry supercell
• In two cases, the researchers believe, the Dopplers captured tornadoes being formed — including the Oklahoma City monster.1999 May 11, William K. Stevens, “Oklahoma Tornado Offers Hints Of How a Killer Storm Is Born”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry supercell
• The year the tornado swept through, it scattered the debris of two garages and their contents outward for hundreds of yards.1998 August 16, Marjorie Daniel, “Essay: Nature’s Broom”, in The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Sunday Magazine” section…. From the entry javelin
• Some of the same areas hit by tornadoes just a little over a week ago are expecting severe storms again Monday afternoon and evening.2024 May 5, Allison Chinchar, “Multiday severe weather threat could continue tornado streak this week”, in CNN, archived from the original…. From the entry week
• I countered that SimCity had included a robust variety of natural disasters, including tornadoes, earthquakes, and non-copyrighted Godzilla-ish monsters who stomped through buildings with abandon.2020, Sid Meier, Jennifer Lee Noonan, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games, page 112. From the entry Godzilla-ish
• This sometimes results in lilapsophobia (the fear of tornadoes and hurricanes) which is expressed as an ongoing fear that any storms will become severe.2016, John Tyrrell, “Site Investigations of Tornado Events”, in Robert K. Doe, editor, Extreme Weather: Forty Years of the Tornado and…. From the entry lilapsophobia
• These donations continued to be received through the first anniversary of the tornadoes with donaters and receivers providing positive feedback using the Facebook page.2013, Adam Crowe, Leadership in the Open: A New Paradigm in Emergency Management, →ISBN, page 195. From the entry donater
• Most uses of the Emergency Broadcast System, such as tornado or flood warnings, are designed to help people look out for themselves.2013 August 6, Jon Healey, “Californians climb the learning curve for AMBER text alerts”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry amber alert
• A tornado hit Tomahawk in ’89, but took only a pen full of Guinea fowl and the steeple off the Lutheran church.2012, J. F. Glubka, “Heat Lightning”, in Southwest Review, volume 97, number 4, Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University, →ISSN…. From the entry guinea fowl
• Figure 3.35 illustrates the small cycloidal swaths of the Anchor, Illinois, tornado and the giant cycloidal swaths of the Homer Lake, Indiana, tornado.1983, Robert F. Abbey Jr., T. Theodore Fujita, “Tornadoes: The Tornado Outbreak of 3-4 April 1974”, in Edwin Kessler, editor, The…. From the entry super outbreak
• The resulting shock wave through the hero community saw not only the inferno of more published tell-alls, but a tornado of resignations, divorces, self-exiles, and even suicides.2007, Minister Faust, From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, page 25. From the entry tell-alls
• The eggs are only one component of a Korean meal known as tornado omurice, which consists of a spiral of scrambled eggs topped with a mound of rice and curry.2023 December 10, Anoushka Sharma, “"Heading To The Kitchen": Anand Mahindra Shares Video Of Tornado Omelette”, in NDTV, archived from the…. From the entry tornado omelette
• As always, one of the girls is a tornado of enthusiasm and high drama, prone to announcements like, "I have a crisis," when really it's a fun crisis she's having.2017 October 10, Jennifer Senior, “In John Green's 'Turtles All the Way Down,' a Teenager's Mind Is at War With Itself”, in The New York…. From the entry high drama

Meaning of tornado

1. noun A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.
2. verb To sweep through something violently.

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Questions about tornado in a sentence

How do you use tornado in a sentence?

Tornado is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright.”

What is a short sentence with tornado?

“The tornado ripped through northern Nebraska.”

What does tornado mean?

Tornado means a violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.