Examples of cyclone in a Sentence
Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
Cyclone Freddy turned out to be the longest-lasting cyclone ever on record, causing untold damage and killing more than 600 people across Mozambique, Madagascar, and Malawi, with some counts even higher.
—Blanca Begert, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
The dams along the Wadi Derna river valley collapsed amid Storm Daniel, a Mediterranean cyclone that dropped up to 16 inches of rain over parts of the North African country in a single 24-hour period this week.
—Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2023
Summer storms and cyclones have always contained large amounts of moisture and still require the right conditions to develop.
—Theodora Yu, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
The torrential rainfall that has devastated Derna and other cities in Libya’s northeast is the result of a very strong low-pressure system, which brought catastrophic flooding to Greece last week before moving into the Mediterranean and developing into a tropical-like cyclone known as a medicane.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
That more easterly path would take the storm over more of the Baja California peninsula and more rapidly weaken the cyclone.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
For most residents of Vanuatu, questions of foreign interference were far from top of the agenda, as the country battles economic difficulties and the recovery from twin cyclones this year, Newton Cain said.
—Christopher Cottrell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
Some research projects track hurricanes, cyclones and other weather phenomena from space.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Aug. 2023
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Word History
Noun
modification of Greek kyklōma wheel, coil, from kykloun to go around, from kyklos circle
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“Cyclone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cyclone. Accessed 29 Sep. 2023.
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