How To Use Hailstone In A Sentence
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The first thunderclap brought down raindrops and hailstones as big as marbles.
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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.
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Hailstones pelted the tent.
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Hmmm… I know they often say ‘hailstones the size of golf balls,’ but this seemed to be more like a hailstone the size of a Monopoly hotel.
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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?
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And despite some worries last night (involving thunder, lightning, and hailstones the size of marbles), the weather has turned out reasonably well.
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I don't think I've ever experienced hailstones and glorious sunshine simultaneously before.
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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
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So, it needs a very powerful updraught to grow golfball-sized hailstones.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first thunderclap brought down raindrops and hailstones as big as marbles.
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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
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Huge hailstones, some the size of softballs, and driven by squally winds, struck the city and suburbs, particularly in the east.
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Hailstones are formed by winds known as updrafts that blow upward in thunderstorms.
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I endured winter blizzards, biting gale force winds, pouring rain, fog, hailstones, and the energy-sapping humidity of midsummer.
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The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.
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We were the only family in Johannesburg to collect hailstones to use as ice cubes by placing a bucket on the kitchen table directly below the leak in the roof.
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Snow and hailstones fell in a number of areas on Wednesday night last.
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The first thunderclap brought down raindrops and hailstones as big as marbles.
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In the middle of an incessant thunderstorm, with hailstones making vision almost impossible, feeling cold and hungry, 50 miles from home, the enormity of what I was letting myself in for began to sink in.
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Hailstones rattled on the tin roof.
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While hailstones are ice, hail is mostly a summer phenomena because the strong thunderstorms needed to produce hail are much more common during warm weather.
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It was a merry time when there was little besides handy blows, and it may be a flight of arrows that harmed an ashler wall as little as so many hailstones.
The Abbot
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In a thunderstorm with fast-rising air, supercooled water droplets can freeze and grow into hailstones as other supercooled drops hit them and freeze.
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Spring will get off to a dismal start today with gales, hailstones and thunder storms.
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But in our sunless summer of 2007, hailstones shredded the leaves of my teenage beans.
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We also got a rare treat for the month of July; a heavy shower of hailstones.
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Constance poured the punch, Hi-C and seltzer, pineapple juice and chockful of oranges, over the hailstone and waited for Everly to ask her for the first dance.
Hailstone
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Hail showers are quite common over the British Isles in westerly and northerly airstreams in spring, but really large hailstones tend to occur in the south and are very much a feature of Summer months.
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We thought they might be lapilli - little volcanic hailstones that form when you have an eruption of volcanic ash and it coagulates and falls out.
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The pitch cut up badly while shortly before throw-in we had a heavy shower of hailstones.
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Cosmical gelatinous vesicles, similar to the organic 'nostoc' (masses which have been supposed since the Middle Ages to be connected with shooting stars), and those pyrites of Sterlitamak, west of the Uralian Mountains, which are said to have constituted the interior of hailstones, * must both be classed among the mythical fables of meteorology.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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Accretionary lapilli are like volcanic hailstones that form by the addition of concentric layers of moist ash around a central nucleus.
Accretionary lapilli - The Panda's Thumb
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Federal climate officials have confirmed the hailstone is the heaviest ever recorded on the continent.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Whilst I've been at work we've had thunder and lightning, torrential rain, hailstones and wind.
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The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.
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The withered leaves danced with the hailstones.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A strong updraft allows hailstones to grow large enough to reach the ground.
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I endured winter blizzards, biting gale force winds, pouring rain, fog, hailstones, and the energy-sapping humidity of midsummer.
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At about two a tremendous dust storm came in followed by hailstones as big as cricket balls.
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Reaper whinnied, unable to completely protect herself from the stings and pelts of the hailstones.
Kings of Colorado
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The farm owner said hailstones the size of hen's eggs battered his valuable grazing veld and totally destroyed his crops.
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The cup-boy is a sun rising from the dark underworld symbolised by his collar; his cheek-mole is a crumb of ambergris, his nose is a scymitar grided at the curve; his lower lip is a jujube; his teeth are the Pleiades or hailstones; his browlocks are scorpions; his young hair on the upper lip is an emerald; his side beard is a swarm of ants or a Lám
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Drops of water the size of a baby's fist come splattering down with the rat-tat-tat of hailstones in their wake.
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He hung there, layered with ice as hailstones formed, a grey powdery coating rushing out of the mauve and grey mist, invading his ears and nostrils, feathering his eyebrows, freezing his crotch.
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Giant hailstones continued pounding the ship's hull and the lightning blasted three holes in the coralite during the brief time Haplo stood and watched.
The Hand of Chaos
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The really big hailstones usually accompany ferocious thunderstorms that produce tornados.
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If the item is lightweight, like a fish or a small frog, it may be caught in a strong storm or a cloud updraft for a long time rising higher until it is thrown out like a hailstone.
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The only good thing about the severity of the storm was that the hoppers seemed to be retreating, the ball bearing hailstones shredding their wings while the high winds blew them about in the dark sky.
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Hail showers are quite common over the British Isles in westerly and northerly airstreams in spring, but really large hailstones tend to occur in the south and are very much a feature of Summer months.
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Higher still are the records or memories of individual experience and the registration of individual habits, while on the surface is the instreaming multitude of messages from the outside world, like raindrops and hailstones on the stream, some of them penetrating deeply, being, as we say, full of meaning.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
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He gave me a cock and bull story about the glass being smashed by hailstones.
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He and Jimmy lay beneath the wagon as a barrage of hailstones beat hard on the planks above.
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Drops of water the size of a baby's fist come splattering down with the rat-tat-tat of hailstones in their wake.
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Hailstones are formed by winds known as updrafts that blow upward in thunderstorms.
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Positively charged ice crystals rise to the top of the thunderstorm, and negatively charged ice particles and hailstones drop to the lower parts of the storm.
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A strong updraft allows hailstones to grow large enough to reach the ground.
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National Weather Service Mr. Scott keeps his hailstone, one of his prized possessions, in his white, upright Montgomery Ward Signature frost-free freezer in the basement of his house.
Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone
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Pearls signify both tears and teeth; the latter are sometimes called hailstones, from their whiteness and moisture; the lips are cornelians or rubies; the gums, a pomegranate flower; the dark foliage of the myrtle is synonymous with the black hair of the beloved, or with the first down on the cheeks of puberty.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If the item is lightweight, like a fish or a small frog, it may be caught in a strong storm or a cloud updraft for a long time rising higher until it is thrown out like a hailstone.
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Showers of sleet, snow and hailstones will continue up to the weekend but there will be clear spells with the possibility of sunshine breaking through in the latter half of the week.
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National Weather Service The hailstone, here being weighed on an official postal scale at the tiny U.S. Post Office in Vivian, was one of many huge ones that pummeled the town's roofs and pockmarked cars and pickup trucks last summer.
Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone
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There were hailstones, rarely heard loud thunder, lightning, strong gusty winds and sheets of rain.
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A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.
Chapter 3
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A holiday jet plunged thousands of feet as it was pelted with massive hailstones and struck by lightning on its way to Manchester Airport.
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In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword.
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The ground was drenched in rain and bombarded by hailstones until it resembled an ice-rink and it took a supreme effort from the ground staff to restrict the time loss to 90 minutes.
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Les Scott holds the U.S. record for the two-pound hailstone that fell from the sky during a major thunderstorm in Vivian, S.D., on July 23 last year.
Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone
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White layers of soft ice build up when the nascent hailstone gathers supercooled water droplets and ice crystals.
Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice
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Commuters were battered on the then unsheltered platforms at Flinders Street railway station, horses bolted, and hailstones filled the cable tram tracks.
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With brutally unforgiving winters, and summers of drought and fist-sized hailstones, these states practically beg travelers to keep on moving.
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The growth of a hailstone is generally quite uniform, and it ends up roughly spherical.
Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice
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The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.
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In fact, the size of hailstones gives some idea of the speed of an updraught.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dionne Searcey/The Wall Street Journal Mr. Scott let National Weather Service meteorologists cast molds of the hailstone at their lab in Boulder, but he wouldn't let them dissect it.
Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone
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Hailstones damaged crops and even killed farm animals.
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But that could also have been the hailstones that started falling at one point.
The Sun
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This is at least the plan, although two minutes after I got here the hailstorm and driving rain started (I put a much-bigger-than-a-golfball size hailstone in the freezer).
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On day three of the trip we stumbled into a cafe in a tiny fishing hamlet after a three-hour drive from the last human habitation, through barren lava fields battered by hailstones and gales.
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The first thick layer of albumen protein is twisted by spiraling grooves in the oviduct wall to form the chalazae from the Greek for “small lump,” “hailstone”, two dense, slightly elastic cords which anchor the yolk to the ends of the shell and allow it to rotate while suspending it in the middle of the egg.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Afterwards he found one particularly strange hailstone, the size of a small melon and covered in knobbles of ice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Slice open a hailstone and you'll find a series of concentric rings, like the layers of an onion.
Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice
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The start of the second half was greeted by a downpour of hailstones, and spectators ran for cover, leaving the players to battle it out on the pitch.
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Thunder, lightning and hailstones battered the field at Carpvale on Sunday making long pole fishing a game for only the most foolhardy for long spells of the contest.
