How to Use waterspout in a Sentence

waterspout

noun
  • What are the two kinds of waterspouts?
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • What are the two types of waterspouts?
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Will there be more waterspouts this week?
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • How many waterspouts formed on the Great Lakes last week?
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • How many waterspouts did the Great Lakes see?
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Will the Great Lakes see waterspouts this week?
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Prany turned on all the waterspouts, the showerhead, and the faucet.
    Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • The video montage next shows a waterspout tossing kayaks and boats into the air.
    Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Also in the mix was freezing rain, thunder snow and at least one waterspout.
    John Hopewell, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • This isn't the first time a waterspout has been spotted off Destin.
    Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
  • More footage of that waterspout that was near Destin this morning.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The fair-weather waterspout forms over water.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • How many waterspouts did the Great Lakes see Sunday?
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Mehrlich said airport staff, too, initially thought the fish were carried by a waterspout.
    Dallas News, 22 June 2022
  • How many waterspouts formed on the Great Lakes Sunday?
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Beach conditions will be hazardous with big waves and even a chance of a waterspout or coastal tornado along the cold front.
    Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Thunderstorms, small hail, gusty winds and even an isolated waterspout are all on the table.
    Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That perfect storm of waterspout conditions hit Italy around the time the Bayesian sank.
    Alec Luhn, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
  • This glass bath is shallow enough for birds of all sizes to splash and also includes a pleasant mini waterspout in the center.
    Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2022
  • Then, the captain alerted the team that a waterspout—or a tornado that whirls over water—was forming off the port bow.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 June 2019
  • There is also a chance of small hail, and waterspouts over waters off the California coast.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Here's what to know about waterspout activity.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In nearby Biloxi, a waterspout moved ashore Wednesday morning.
    Kevin McGill, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • Tornadoes can also form over water as waterspouts.
    Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Offshore from these areas, the NWS also warned that waterspouts could form.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Mounted dragon heads then became a thing, and soon churches all around Europe had waterspouts carved to look like dragons.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2020
  • The storms also generated a waterspout over Lake Buyukcekmece, a large lake on the edge of the city.
    Fox News, 25 June 2020
  • It is believed that waterspouts, which are tornadoes over water, can suck fish into the air and the wind carries them until they are tossed to the ground.
    Joy Johnston, ajc, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Video from 2015 shows a waterspout whipping over a New Jersey man's house.
    Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Sicily's civil protection agency said that a tornado over the water known as a waterspout had struck the area overnight.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2024

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