Sentence examples for storm spread from inspiring English sources

As news of the approaching storm spread, she and her friends looked for a way to escape the city.

The first wave of a powerful Pacific storm spread rain and snow early Friday through much of California, where communities endangered by a wildfire just weeks ago now faced the threat of mud and debris flows.

As rumours of a storm spread, civilians were evacuated from city hall, which has become a makeshift dormitory for protesters since it was occupied a week ago, though hundreds later returned.

Crews fought mud and water as they tried to restore power after a fierce storm spread a wintry mix across the Dakotas, while the authorities worked to remove snow-stranded vehicles that littered an Interstate highway hours after their occupants were rescued.

"This is still a serious storm, and it will impact the metropolitan area in a serious way," Todd J. Miner, a Pennsylvania State University meteorologist, said late yesterday as the storm spread over 10 states that 63 million people call home.

Just before 8 a.m. EDT, the storm was downgraded to category 2. The storm spread worries it would dump nearly 2 feet of rain on flood-prone parts of Texas and Louisiana, spurring tornadoes as it churned northwest at 12 mph with winds that topped 120 mph.

Storms spread like inkblots across the sky.

The National Weather Service said the fast-moving storms spread along a line stretching from central New Jersey to Queens, accompanied by ferocious winds, and by large hailstones and pockets of rainfall far heavier than any on record.

A storm has spread the ice pack out, opening up water, bringing up warmer water.

Wet snow and high winds spinning off the edge of the storm also spread blizzard conditions over parts of West Virginia and Maryland, The Associated Press reported.

The storm system spread destruction from Texas to New York, where dozens of roads were flooded or washed out.