stormed

past tense of storm
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as in rained
to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds it storms so frequently up in the mountains that the peaks are rarely visible from the valley below

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stormed Ohio State jumped to a 14-0 lead late in the first quarter as Jackson ran it in from 16 and 8 yards before Oregon stormed back. — ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026 Brown last played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2021 season and in what turned out to be his final game, famously stormed off the field bare chested. — David K. Li, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2026 After this summer’s World Cup in North America, the striker then clashed with new head coach Jorge Jesus and stormed out of a national team training camp last month. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026 Golden State was down 67-57 with 10 minutes left in the period, but stormed all the way back to win the game 116-113. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026 But officials stopped the clock when the fans stormed the field in Boston, and Dallas had one more play. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026 That film’s formal rigor, matched with the horror of the live news reports as the situation stormed out of control, accentuated the incident’s brutality and bigotry. — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026 Republicans stormed to their first majority in the House (54 seats net) in 40 years and recaptured the Senate with eight new seats there as well. — Ron Elving, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026 In 2006, the Charger stormed the market as a rubber-burning full-size sedan that gained muscle over the years, culminating in a 797-horsepower variant. — Matt Degen, AJC.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stormed
Verb
  • Weather concerns The plane went down amid a barrage of severe thunderstorms that raged across South Florida Sunday morning and into the afternoon.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The fire raged overnight and destroyed the complex in the Old Town Newhall community of Santa Clarita, wiping away a 100-year-old structure that housed longtime community staples including a restaurant and a performing-arts theater.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • In February 2022, as missiles rained down on Kyiv, Aydin loaded his car with steel tanks filled with IVMED patients’ frozen eggs, sperm, and embryos and shuttled them out of the country and to a safe harbor in Slovakia.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Confetti rained down onto the court as the crowd erupted in cheers, and the Valkyries celebrated the historic victory.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Once in sight of land at last, the ship is attacked (by the French, as this is during the French and Indian War), with consequences falling hardest on the Clems.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Second, during a July test, OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face systems in a move unrelated to its task.
    — Stephen Pitt-Walker, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • One of my favorite dishes was the live bass, steamed whole under fresh green chiles.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2026
  • These were extraordinary, the shrimp steamed until the meat, lightly perfumed with ginger, snapped under the tooth, and the pleated wrapper held the right amount of chew.
    — Christopher Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2026
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  • Elon Musk poured nearly half a billion dollars into the midterms to support Republican candidates, most to help Ken Paxton defeat Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate race.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Quientella Bonner scored 45 points in 1977, Merlakia Jones scored 44 in 1995 and Ronni Williams poured in 43 points in 2017.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Known as The Max, the facility was at the center of a bribery scheme that led to the conviction of the former mayor of neighboring McCook, whose office was raided the same day as Getty’s.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
  • An amateur historian has stumbled upon a provocative clue to the enduring mystery of what became of a notorious pirate who raided a royal Indian treasure ship centuries ago, implicating a co-conspirator whose name is familiar to many New Yorkers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The tokens burned spitting out anti-Waymo opinions are part of a monthslong battle between Waymo and its rivals over whether the autonomous driving company can operate commercially on the streets of several major cities.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026
  • There was even a Panthers defensive stand in which the Broncos only burned 59 seconds and the Panthers had the ball, driving, with two minutes left in the game — only five points down.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 9 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • When the continents sank in the Cambrian, seas flooded in and buried the eroded surface.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
  • That group and other environmental organizations have also argued the chunk of the Sacramento Valley that could soon be flooded is composed of rich oak woodland habitat occupied by an untold number of wildlife species.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026

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“Stormed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stormed. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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