Sentence examples for storm pushed from inspiring English sources

But while the storm pushed tenants and the authority to work together, Hurricane Sandy exacerbated anger over longstanding problems.

Thick snow blanketed mountain ranges in south-western Europe, above, after a storm pushed through the region in early February.

But the most serious damage, including the flooding of New York's subway tunnels and the broad destruction along the Jersey Shore, came as the storm pushed roiling ocean waters onto land, a phenomenon known as storm surge.

The storm pushed the community's 15-foot-high dunes flat, leveling them, along with a boardwalk set about 200 feet back from the beach, and funneling water onto the adjacent road.

"Just because we're getting a lot of rain doesn't mean we're out of the drought," said Jim Boerding, a farmer in St. Charles, Mo., where a few tornadoes were spotted on Saturday as the storm pushed through.

A tropical storm pushed ocean waves, some of them topping 60 feet, against the wall a week ago, breaching the barrier and raising worries that chemicals might leak from the factory.

— before the storm, pushing nails through the holes in the sashes to keep out intruders.

I had closed all the windows battened down the hatches!—before the storm, pushing nails through the holes in the sashes to keep out intruders.

By dawn on Monday, 3 September, the fire was principally expanding north and west, the turbulence of the fire storm pushing the flames both further south and further north than the day before.

By 2003, payouts had fallen to $0.98 per dollar of premiums, though last year's storms pushed payouts back up to $1.01.

So it was fitting that the threat of storms pushed Mr. Obama's acceptance speech indoors, to a smaller, humbler arena.