[
US
/ˈheɪɫˌstoʊn/
]
[ UK /hˈeɪlstəʊn/ ]
[ UK /hˈeɪlstəʊn/ ]
NOUN
- small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm
How To Use hailstone In A Sentence
- The first thunderclap brought down raindrops and hailstones as big as marbles.
- A hailstone with a 7-inch diameter and a circumference of 18.75 inches was recently named the largest hailstone ever recovered in the United States.
- Hailstones pelted the tent.
- No, I wuz cownting deh hailstonez bonking on dhe roof…. but deh storm am gone now. You’ll wish you had thought of this - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- And despite some worries last night (involving thunder, lightning, and hailstones the size of marbles), the weather has turned out reasonably well.
- I don't think I've ever experienced hailstones and glorious sunshine simultaneously before.
- Plainly it would be unwise to venture within range of the arboreal hailstones without protection, for though our pith-helmets were of the best quality they were, after all, but pith, and a cocoanut is a cocoanut, the world over. The Cruise of the Kawa
- So, it needs a very powerful updraught to grow golfball-sized hailstones. Times, Sunday Times
- The first thunderclap brought down raindrops and hailstones as big as marbles.
- A hailstone repeatedly falls and is carried up by air currents as it grows inside a cloud, until it is too heavy to support. Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice