make landfall

phrase

: to reach land after a journey by sea or air

They made landfall on the fourth day of their journey.

Examples of make landfall in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Kauai, which is several islands northwest up the archipelago from the Big Island, saw Hurricane Iniki make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in 1992. — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026

The last tropical system to make landfall was Tropical Storm Olivia in 2018, which came ashore on Maui, the island’s first landfall since recordkeeping began in the 1950s. — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

The storm could make landfall this weekend or move just south of the Big Island, says Liam Tsamous, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Honolulu office. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026

The storm caught the state off guard, having made a sudden shift to the east and smack into the core of the state after most forecasters had projected it to make landfall much farther to the north. — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026

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