Sentence examples for of wind powerful from inspiring English sources

There is the cold to consider — temperatures in Antarctica reach seventy degrees below zero — along with steep treks through thin mountain air, and gusts of wind powerful enough to sweep researchers from mountains, not to mention rock slides, marauding polar bears, deep crevasses, and lightning strikes.

But the combination of extreme wind, powerful waves and frigid temperatures makes this a particularly harsh environment.

It needs imported crude to keep the lights on, but it also has an abundance of clean-energy sources: sunshine, wind, powerful tides and waves and cold ocean depths.

Just 12 hours earlier, with the waterfront already battered by hours of winds and powerful currents brought on by Hurricane Sandy, the East River rose over South Street and flooded into Wall Street, where cars were inundated — and some appeared to be floating.

High winds, powerful waves and difficult currents hamper operations.

On one tour, a powerful gust of wind suddenly made it impossible to see and nearly impossible to breathe, she said.

This low-lying bed of silt in Chad, across which powerful jets of wind are wont to blow, constitutes less than 1% of the Sahara's area but is reckoned the world's dustiest place.

Powerful gusts of wind from Tropical Storm Lee continued to fan the flames last night, making it virtually impossible for emergency services to gain an upper hand on the unfolding disaster.

Microbursts are sudden, localised, downdraughts of cool air from the underneath of a storm; they can produce short-lived but powerful gusts of wind as the descending air reaches the ground and spreads out away from the storm.

Among them, he can slow or stop time; he can summon a swarm of rats to devour his foes or a powerful gust of wind to blow them off ledges; he can inhabit the bodies of fish and rats; and he can possess other people and briefly control them.

Mr. Gadomski said that an unusual amount of arctic air in the Central United States and Canada was greeted by a moisture laden storm that came up from Florida and the encounter produced a powerful cocktail of wind and snow, particularly on its southern edge.