Sentence examples for storm passing from inspiring English sources

In 1997, April and her mother had their own storm passing over: they were homeless.

Because of the counterclockwise rotation of hurricane winds, a storm passing to the west of the slick would tend to push the oil to the coast, while a storm passing to the east would drive the oil away from land.

The concert lasted about a half-hour, and ranged from a rattling rhythm to a sheet of noise to an eerie, fading drone, almost like the sound of a storm passing through.

The Islamist storm passing through Iraq right now has been building up since the United States invaded the country in 2003, which unleashed longstanding sectarian rivalries that spilled over into civil war.

A stronger Category 3 storm, passing immediately over Manhattan, could rival or exceed the roughly $235 billion in economic damage estimated to have been caused by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

Sheets of rain and wind attacked Camden Yards just after the first pitch tonight and the umpires stopped the game 54 seconds after it started, the storm passing in some 20 minutes.

By Lawrence Wright June 16, 2014 The Islamist storm passing through Iraq right now has been building up since the United States invaded the country in 2003, which unleashed longstanding sectarian rivalries that spilled over into civil war.

"For foreign students, the 'Circular Guéant' is like a surprise storm passing through, that sweeps away all professional projects, " said Youssef, 25, from Morocco, a recent graduate with a master's degree in economics from Paris-Dauphine University, another top school, who requested his last name not be used to avoid compromising a pending work visa application.