How to Use updraft in a Sentence

updraft

noun

• This is the place to see people jump off a cliff, then rise on the updraft.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
• From that updraft, a wall cloud — a long-hanging rugged cloud — emerges.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• Hail forms in the colder portions of clouds with strong updrafts.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024
• Strong updrafts tossed the aircraft and thick hail battered its body.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
• The warm moist air feeding into the storm, or updraft, twists around it like a corkscrew.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• Wind shear makes a storm's updraft start rotating.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
• The warm air rises through the colder air, causing an updraft.
  — Ron Johnson, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• Simard writes, for instance, of the thrill of watching an eagle catch an updraft.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
• Combine this with wind shear, and strong updrafts can start the rotations.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 11 Mar. 2026
• This change of wind with altitude helps sustain storm updrafts.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 9 May 2018
• If the updrafts are strong enough and last long enough, the graupel can keep growing and become denser.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2023
• The updraft will begin to rotate if winds vary sharply in speed or direction.
  — Ron Johnson, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• The idea is that this rotating air could then be turned upright when it gets sucked into an updraft.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• The fan has six speeds and switches from downdraft to updraft with the remote controller.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
• There was no rotation, Hatzos said, but there was a slight updraft.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 5 Feb. 2020
• As this spinning air is drawn into the storm’s updraft, the updraft rotates.
  — Yvette Richardson, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2024
• If thermals exist, pilots can key in on them, catch the updrafts, and extend their flight time.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 2 Aug. 2017
• The waves get steeper as they near shore, further strengthening the updraft.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• If a thunderstorm cell was able to get going, then those strong wind changes could impart a spin to the updraft.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2021
• Many birds rest when the sun is high, but raptors such as eagles and hawks soar on updrafts that form when sunlight warms the ground.
  — The New York Times Elaine Chen Emily Anthes, New York Times, 18 May 2023
• As the thunderstorm nears its end, the downdraft is stronger than the updraft, which had been the storm’s source of warm, moist air.
  — Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
• The vertical part of the plus sign is a strong updraft wind into the thunderstorm.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 25 July 2019
• Suddenly, a monstrous black bird coasted across the sky on an updraft, gliding high above my head.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2020
• Eventually, hail stones fall to the surface when the updrafts can no longer support their weight.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• So all the precipitation falls off to the side, but the updraft is able to sustain itself.
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 19 July 2024
• For any storms that acquire rotating updrafts, a brief tornado or two is not out of the question.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Without this supply from the updraft, the storm weakens and dissipates.
  — Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
• This, however, does require a strong and long-lived updraft to help stretch and tighten the rotation.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• The rotating updraft allows the storm to produce large hail, high wind gusts, and strong tornadoes.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2019
• With fire, Iona can transform a planet into a ball of flame and use the updraft to reach far away portions of a level.
  — Matthew Gault, Time, 12 Aug. 2019