Sentence examples for struck land from inspiring English sources

No large parts were known to have struck land.

The capital of Manila is about 350km south of where Haima struck land.

Haiyan struck land once again near Ha Long Bay in Vietnam's Quang Ninh province at 5 00 am on November 10.

Mr. McCain's aides disclosed the news at the same time as Hurricane Gustav struck land in what they said was an orchestrated attempt to minimize attention to it.

In October 2002, for example, Hurricane Lili roared toward Louisiana at Category 4 strength and then abruptly dropped to Category 2 as it struck land.

More than 5 million people were left without electricity in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, and in Florida, where Katrina first struck land last week.

Perhaps the most powerful cyclone to strike land raged across the North Pacific Ocean in early November 2013.

Yet India's meteorological department had given the Burmese government 48 hours' notice of how severe Cyclone Nargis would be, and where it would strike land.

The Huaorani and uncontacted tribes have also lost much of their territory to other tribes that were quicker to embrace modernity and strikes land deals with the authorities.

With maximum sustained winds at landfall there that measured 195 miles (314 km) per hour, Haiyan was among the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded, if not the most powerful, to strike land.

The storm in the gulf looked to become a hurricane by the time it strikes land, providing a compelling — and competing — news event for the journalists assembled here in Tampa.