Sentence Examples

1. Always my hero, Henry rises and announces that we will be taking our dessert to go because the storm has arrived and things are reported to get nasty through the night.
2. She knew it was her imagination, but the calm seemed unnatural, as if the enclave held its breath in preparation for the storm that was about to overtake it.
3. His face was smooth, but his features seemed to ripple, like the deceptively placid surface of the seas before a storm.
4. Like New Orleans, they have been warned of a super storm for years but never take it seriously.
5. A tropical storm, a rare event on Lanzarote, has chosen this very afternoon to lambast the island.
6. I trudged along, determined, not thinking straight, my instincts telling me to head in a direction no one in their right mind would head in a tropical storm.
7. I thought of them both the first night after the storm, after hours of blistering heat on the roof and no rescue, when darkness so intense fell upon us and TB curled into a ball and cried himself to sleep.
8. Dimly, Evan was aware of the sky growling above them, the rain must be foreshadowing a storm.
9. He was about to storm downstairs and see how Ryan had managed to break their window, when he heard roars of fury, cries of fear and high laughter that made him go cold.
10. Bruise-coloured clouds crowded over the brick buildings, promising a storm later.