How to Use haboob in a Sentence

haboob

noun
  • Monday's haboob was fueled by a storm that hit outside Phoenix.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • What could be the best haboob of the season — maybe the decade — was forming over the Sonoran Desert.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This wasn’t just another summer haboob.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The culprit was a towering dust storm, along the leading edge of a vigorous thunderstorm complex, known as a haboob.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
  • The forecast pointed to intense storm activity, with outflows strong enough to create a towering haboob that could blanket the city.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This massive haboob was caught on tape in August in Southern California.
    — Jim Foerster, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • As Phoenix passes the halfway mark of this year’s monsoon, dramatic downpours, gusty haboobs and streaks of lightning across the sky have been mostly absent.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Chow missed the last big haboob that hit Phoenix on July 5, 2011, and had been waiting to capture one like it for over a decade.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The haboob was caused by a variety of factors, the first and primary one being the strong cold front that dropped temperatures by 32 degrees in just two hours.
    — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Dangerous lightning, desert flash flooding and haboobs (giant dust storms) are all hazards associated with the monsoon.
    — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
  • An apocalyptic-looking dust storm, or a haboob, moved through Denver on Wednesday night, turning area skies from blue to brown in a matter of minutes.
    — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Several videos showing the haboob rolling over beaches were shot on the northern shores of the Paraná River, which is about 10 miles wide, to the east of Ayolas.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
  • A couple's wedding day in Chandler was unexpectedly interrupted by a massive haboob.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The groundbreaking ceremony was held on a morning when a haboob moved through the southeast Valley, obscuring some structures on the Chandler campus.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The haboob arrived late in the afternoon in Arizona City, which is approximately 60 miles southeast of Phoenix.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The haboob at times towered about a mile high and traveled nearly 200 miles, carving a path from the Arizona desert into southeastern California.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 12 July 2018
  • Additionally, haboobs could roll across the Arabian desert, reducing visibility and bringing along gusty winds.
    — Daniel Manzo, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The haboob at times towered about a mile high and traveled nearly 200 miles, carving a path into southeastern California before fizzling out near Imperial.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The haboob in Phoenix comes after a weekend dust storm in Nevada blew through Burning Man, an annual arts gathering in Black Rock City, about 120 miles from Reno.
    — Sarah Dewberry, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Spotters reported a haboob, a kind of dust storm generated by sinking air from a thunderstorm, near the California-Nevada border, according to the weather service’s Las Vegas office.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The slow-moving cloud — known as a haboob — hit parts of Phoenix and Arizona City, 60 miles to the southeast, late Monday afternoon, at one point leaving 15,000 energy customers in the dark.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025

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