Sentence examples for winds driving from inspiring English sources

State and local officials also note that the fires are more intense and the winds driving them are twice as strong this time round.

But the center said the reclassification had no bearing on the powerful winds, driving rains and life-threatening storm-surge expected to accompany its push onto land.

Storm surges like those accompanying Hurricane Sandy as it churns north are, at their simplest, a function of strong winds driving too much water into too small a space.

That was shortly after the center had reclassified the storm as a post-tropical cyclone, a scientific renaming that had no bearing on the powerful winds, driving rains and life-threatening storm surge expected to accompany its push onto land.

A warm January, a chilly start to spring, an early-April hot spell complete with brush-fire outbreaks, and now, freezing winds driving the rain into the sockets of your skull.

Tens of millions of people braced themselves for the arrival of hurricane Sandy on Sunday, as the gigantic storm threatened to unleash punishing winds, driving rain, heavy snow and a potentially lethal storm surge along the east coast of the US.

Yesterday's roughest weather stretched from the northern Rockies to the Mississippi Valley, with wind driving snow across the northern Great Plains at more than 50 m.p.h. in places.

With his back against a wall, his posture was more prayerful than protective against the bitter wind, driving snow and the other perils that might leap from the darkness.

The dialect words, too, are stunningly rich and evocative: "pooties" (snail shells), "crizzle" (to freeze), "cowslaps" (cowslips), "whirl puffs" (a sudden gust of wind driving the dust into an eddy).

The Most Important Player – maybe not the most valuable, but arguably the most important – for the Royals in the 2015 World Series was cruising Wednesday night, top down, dreadlocks blowing in a misty wind, driving Kansas City to a 7-1 victhat that put the American League Champions up 2-0 in the best-of-seven series.

We begin with the endless days of an Arctic summer, "the sun warming the bones of the earth"; then, as Agnes's end approaches, "autumn has been pushed aside by a wind driving flurries of snow up against the croft, and the air is as thin as paper".