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UK
/fˈaɪəstɔːm/
]
[ US /ˈfaɪɹˌstɔɹm/ ]
[ US /ˈfaɪɹˌstɔɹm/ ]
NOUN
-
an outburst of controversy
the incident triggered a political firestorm - a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area
How To Use firestorm In A Sentence
- The resulting media firestorm killed off the idea of trying to use the market to predict the future.
- Green's proposal provoked a firestorm of protests.
- These created so much fire that a firestorm developed.
- In the firestorm that followed, Mollohan was forced by Pelosi to resign from the Ethics Committee where he served as the ranking Democrat. Matthew Yglesias » Where The Potential Liberals Are
- [S] moke from urban firestorms in a regional war would rise into the upper troposphere due to pyroconvection ... and then might induce significant climactic anomalies on global scales. I'm an uncle! (first of many follow-ons)
- The massive quake killed more than 140,000 people as buildings collapsed and firestorms turned the capital into a raging inferno.
- Doing something cute like that would unleash a firestorm.
- Making an about-face at the command of onshore winds, the firestorm then returned toward its point of origin in the mountains.
- The 1. 6-ounce Brunton Firestorm stormproof lighter can take winds up to 80 mph and ensures you'll never have to rub two sticks together. $60, brunton. com The Great Tech-doors
- I wanted to give our activists every opportunity to prepare themselves for the firestorm of controversy and political backlash that would ensue.
