hail

In a sentence

Six example sentences with hail, each labelled with its topic.

• Hikers on the ridge sheltered under a boulder while hail rattled off their packs for ten loud minutes.

  Travel

• Growers lost the whole apricot crop when hail stripped the blossom during a squall lasting barely four minutes.

  Environment

• She left the shutter open as hail bounced across the pavement, and the frame filled with bright white streaks.

  Photography

• Hail forms when updrafts carry droplets high enough to freeze, and each trip through the cloud adds another layer of ice.

  Science

• Insurers set aside reserves each spring for hail, since a single storm over a suburb can wreck ten thousand cars.

  Finance

• The clinic's roof uses impact rated shingles, which shrug off hail that would crack ordinary clay tiles.

  Architecture

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