How To Use Twister In A Sentence

This tornado hit Furnace county, Nebraska, and it is one of 100 twisters that ravaged must of the Midwest over the weekend.
Hopefully, no unsuspecting schoolchild will be expected to read the report out loud as it is a hotbed of alliteration and tongue-twisters.
You can feel the heat of this conflagration over one hundred yards away and it burns all night to the sound of local teens puking up over the side of the fairground twister.
The twister or funnel cloud was spotted at around 4pm yesterday as a torrential downpour rained on the town.
[with the half-butt as an engine of public opinion] till the rumour went abroad that young men who used the Tail Twisters as a crutch to the Under the Deodars

And if anyone wanted a little extra excitement then the Tralee Chamber had an inflatable bungee, twister and jousting games for the patrons to enjoy.
The moment Master Chou finished his incredible tongue twister, audiences just went buzzing.
At two o'clock the music and voices and thumping from the other room stopped, and I thought it was high time to go home, but when I went out there, trailing the blanket behind me, I found them all passed out: Louise face down on the Twister mat, a snoring Ted mountain near the fireplace, my parents spooning together in a corner like Pompeii people. Babies
The black shadows darting around everywhere, the rain of fire, the lightning, the enormous twisters… but she did not halt, and only pushed more determinedly on.
I remark on the pungent foliage, and smartly share my knowledge that the word tansy comes from the French word for “nose-twister.” Garden Goddess for Hire
And we have late word that twisters are being spotted.
Suddenly, out of the ocean, four huge twisters appeared; they swirled around, creating a huge wind for the boat.
In the United States tornadoes are referred to as twisters, but in Australia we call them willy-willies, or cock-eyed Bobs.
supertwisters are fortunately rare
Likewise, it's only a myth that twisters avoid large cities.
Yet the advent of commercialism has created a series of games which sound more like tongue-twisters concocted by a five-year-old than occasions of genuine sporting grandeur.
Chukchi of all ages have traditionally enjoyed listening to folk-tales, reciting tongue-twisters, singing, and dancing.
Whoever is commentating on the races at Newcastle tomorrow had better start rehearsing a tongue-twister of a name tonight.
We've got steel, the raw material, we've got the forgers, we've got the casters, the benders, the twisters and the fabricators.
The noise the twister made was a loud, low-pitched rumble.
For pictures and more on deadly twisters and the researchers who study them, read ‘Chasing Tornadoes’ in the April issue of National Geographic.
Most other nations haven't been tracking twisters as long as the United States has, and their records are much less thorough, he notes.
Components include a rower, stepper, twister and cycle. Times, Sunday Times
Mississippi Governor Mr Haley Barbour called the twister "gigantic" that struck the region yesterday and said "in places it seemed to be several miles wide as some residents were trapped in badly damaged homes". The Statesman
This is a tongue-twister and may sound boring, but the Wikipedia link I've provided in the previous sentence leads to a Hollywood-like "demystifying" video of life in the scientific fast lane (sorry about the pun). Musings on scientific celebrity
Then, by reference to data from the original group of twisters, each tornado was assigned a Fujita scale rating, a path length over which damage would occur, and a path width.
Situated past East Arm in the southern part of the harbour, it was considered well protected from storm surges and the strong winds expected with the twister.
It may be a tongue-twister for non-Dutch speakers to pronounce, but the food - simple, tasty and distinctively homemade - crosses all borders.
Conditions were ripe for twisters, and there were tornado warnings in counties all along the coast, with several reported touchdowns.
If he is old, he is bound to be disgustingly rich and something of a twister. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
Like the moment in seminal disaster movie Twister when the tornado vanishes in a whisper, the fight was over.
Amy Watson, manager at a women's clothing store, said she'd been outside just prior to the tornado, which sent a tall spiraling cloud cutting across part of the city, and saw the guttering rip off as the twister struck around at around 3pm local time. Fatalities as Tornado Hits New Zealand's Auckland
A new ride, the Mega Bounce, imported from Spain, will be featured, as well as waltzers, dodgems, a Giant Octupus and a Twister.
We met at the fair grounds, on the whirly twister. ALTERED • by Kaolin Fire
If you like to pick apart technical flaws and continuity goofs, then you should have a field day with Twister.
On this wet day, in the preaching-room of the mill, amid forms and desks, with the cranch of the stones from below, the wash of the wheel from outside, and the rush of the uncrushed corn from above, Cæsar sat rolling sugganes for the stackyard, with Kate working the twister, and going backward before him, and half his neighbours sheltering from the rain and looking on. The Manxman A Novel - 1895
Among those who died in the twister were a mother and her 4-year-old son. WHIOTV.com - Local News
The source of their breathless joy is usually dumb knock-knock jokes, tongue-twisters, or inane comic observations: the empty, shallow stuff that comprises the vast majority of human communication.
Otherwise I'd say hint of a twister on the horizon.
A tornado struck homes early yesterday in northern Louisiana and possible twisters were reported in Arkansas and Mississippi.
All the animals on the farm reject the duck, until a twister threatens the henhouse, dropping the baby chicks in the river.
Dealt the tongue-twister, “hydrargyrum,” which means the element mercury, Kavya solved it by also asking, “Does it come from the Greek ‘hydro,’ meaning water?” Kansas City Star: Front Page
You beat me at Twister and I'll say hello to mini-me.
As luck would have it, Dorothy, Uncle Henry, the farmhands, and the men in gaucho costumes seek shelter in a farmhouse from a too-convenient twister, which blows them over a cliff (not over a rainbow, natch). Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
That Moore is a chronic liar and twister of the truth obviously needs to be publicized as much as possible.
Somewhere, deep within Twister, is a searing portrayal of the disintegration of a family, leavened by quirky, oddball humor.
Watching silent twisters at a distance was far different from watching a giant roaring twister stalk them from less than three miles away.
Know that a tornado watch means a twister is possible in your area and that a tornado warning means it has already been sighted and may be headed your way.
Right at the end, a severe axle twister with a high middelmannetjie can only be conquered by vehicles with high ground clearance.
There's a term for that in linguistics that I forget, that explains why nooc you lur is a perfectly reasonable way to pronounce a tongue-twister. "Each candidate chooses the rule at the moment that is in their self-interest."
This name being a bit of a tongue twister for the petite bourgeoisie who were immediately attracted to it, the truncated version, hock, became the name for every wine from the Rhine.
After enjoying the hospitality of Mr Speaker, reference to the Judicial Matters Bill can be something of a tongue-twister at 7.30 p.m.
A strip of white or red pork rind is traditionally added to bucktails for extra action, but white twister-tail soft-plastic grubs in 3 - and 4-inch sizes do the same thing more easily. Stars and Stripers
Now they're saddled with Slavonic tongue-twisters with more consonants and fewer vowels than can possibly be good for them.
With each alternative more of a tongue-twister than the next, understandably Holi is the word popularly preferred.
Unlike a hurricane - a tornado's big, long-lived and usually slow-moving meteorological cousin - a twister is small, brief, and fast moving.
Mississippi residents reported that the path of the twister was a half-mile to a mile wide, said Mark McAllister, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Jackson. WIBW - HomePage - Headlines
Environment Canada has issued a tornado watch covering much of southern and central Ontario - including Goderich, which is still trying to recover from the twister that ripped through days earlier. CBC | Top Stories News
Whoever is commentating on the races at Newcastle tomorrow had better start rehearsing a tongue-twister of a name tonight.
Botanical names for plants are often tongue-twisters, but they are handy things to get a grip on because they can tell one a lot about a plant, without even seeing it.
'She sells seashells on the seashore' is a well-known tongue twister.
Haley Barbour, who was in Yazoo City where his home is located, called the twister "gigantic" and said that "in places [it] seemed to be to be several miles wide. WIBW - HomePage - Headlines
Tongue twisters always frustrate me because I cannot say them correctly.
'She sells seashells on the seashore' is a well-known tongue twister.
Every day, he got up early and read tongue-twisters aloud to improve his diction and develop his facial muscles.
Tuscaloosa resident James Sykes told CNN the massive twister was "like a silent monster.
The most embarrassing moment to realize that there is a tongue-twister in the prayer is when you say it aloud for the first time in worship, and the whole congregation snickers.
With an average of one tornado every three years, it's the twister capital of the world.
There was widespread destruction on the island of Sant’ Elena, where an even larger disaster was narrowly averted by when the twister nearly struck a crowded vaporetto moored at a pontile. A Tornado in Venice
LONG: Witnesses say the twister was a half-mile wide, perhaps even bigger. CNN Transcript May 5, 2007
I use gulp with a lot of success here in WI I like the gulp alive for bass and other fish like that and use the gulp twister tails for walleye. another brand I like to use for walleye is Mister Twister exude, it's the same concept as gulp but is a longer tail and narrower body. What is the best type of rubber bait - Yum!, Gulp!, Powerbait, or Gary Yamamoto?
Internet telerobotics pioneer Ken Goldberg and his students are testing their Tele-Twister collaborative telerobotics game today at noon Pacific Time. Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives
The girl band, The Honeyz, opened the Treetop Twister - described as a bit like riding a fairground waltzer on top of a roller coaster - after a 30-minute concert on May 20.
X-rated Bang: Audiences are almost treated to a different kind of Bang when filming a Twister scene takes a less-than-PG turn. Tribal Chants, Dirty Twister and More Secrets From the Set of The Big Bang Theory
`rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister
In eastern Pennsylvania, a tornado that touched down Thursday in Schuylkill County was the second twister to hit the area this week, the National Weather Service said. Severe storms wreak havoc from Vermont to Georgia
Passwords are generated using a pseudorandom number generator called Mersenne twister, which is an advanced algorithm that creates high quality random numbers using a twisted generalized shift feedback register, and has a higher number of dimensions than linear congruential generators. Softpedia - Windows - All
Both yelled as they fought harder and the twister was gone like a breeze.
To be sure, tongue-twisters such as 'She sells sea shells on the sea shore' and 'The Leith police dismisseth us' do conform to the syntax of English and the expressions can certainly be said to ‘mean’ something.
That means ensuring that important notes carry important words, that the vowel-sounds are singable at a given pitch, and that if there are clusters of consonants they do not make the song into a tongue-twister.
The wind and rain intensified as they watched the deadly twisters move towards them.
By way of putting them at ease in a recording situation, Nigel preceded this by asking the children to talk about, and give examples of, games, rhymes, jokes, riddles and tongue-twisters known to them.
This tornado comes on the wake of a massive twister which struck the town of Jonesboro just a few hours ago.
Yum Brands Inc. has had success in China with its KFC fried-chicken chain by offering menu items familiar to Chinese consumers, such as congee, or rice porridge, and the Dragon Twister, a sandwich wrap filled with chicken, Peking duck sauce, cucumbers and scallions. Kraft Reformulates Oreo,
Scientists who chase dust devils report that the tiny twisters can produce a small magnetic field that changes magnitude between 3 and 30 times per second.
The story is called "The Immortal" and it's an amazing work of literature and it's a brain twister. All we need is Blog?
Their repertoire included folk and musical hall melodies about daily life ending with a fun tongue twister as a finale.
As increasing media coverage makes travelers and residents of suburbs and exurbs more weather-aware, they are more likely to report twisters.
Then, a few girls took over and uttered the tongue-twisters with utmost ease cutting the men to size.
This year, the country has been lucky: As of Aug. 1, only 473 twisters had struck the lower 48 states.
State emergency officials say the twister was a half mile wide, tossed cars around like they were pebbles. CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2008

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