typhoon

How To Use typhoon In A Sentence

• The wet season is also typhoon time. Times, Sunday Times
• Typhoon Roke first made landfall in the tourist town of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time Wednesday, knocking over trucks and ripping roofs from homes, then crawled up Japan's Honshu island. Storm Strikes Central Japan
• With more than 3,600 Filipinos riding out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, churches and relatives 'homes, roads in and out of coastal Isabela province were deserted and blocked by collapsed trees and power lines. Super Typhoon Strikes The Philippines
• It felt classy and utterly imperturbable - the sort of place where the band might play Stormy Weather in a raging typhoon.
• Conditions were so atrocious in rains triggered by an approaching typhoon that no helicopter could fly him to hospital. The Sun
• Hurricanes are called typhoons when occurring in the Pacific Ocean and willy-willies in Australia.
• One reason is "survivor bias"—having survived not only the bombings but homelessness, hunger and a typhoon in the immediate aftermath, the subjects may be a hardier lot than the Japanese population at large. Coal Is More Dangerous Than Nuclear
• According to reports, the slightly weakened typhoon is now bound for China, where residents are racing to prepare before it touches ground this coming Saturday, bringing with it heavy rains and strong winds. Typhoon Megi Leaves Philippines In Shambles (PHOTOS)
• ‘Typhoon’ ties all the elements into an expressionist's cloud - bright splashes and rough scratches, calls, Fernandez's elegiac guitar, heavy African polyrhythms and an incessantly looped vocal sample.
• Hundreds of houses in the typhoon's path suffered structural damage.