How to Use superstorm in a Sentence

superstorm

noun
  • Add sea-level rise and climate-change superstorms, and something has to give.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2017
  • In one of the models the authors tested, the spot forms in the wake of a massive superstorm.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 June 2024
  • Juno was close enough to four of these stealth superstorms to analyze microwaves from their lightning.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Watch the video above to see how New York is preparing for the next superstorm — and whether the city will be ready.
    — William Poor, The Verge, 24 July 2018
  • This week’s approaching winter superstorm is making a lot of news as folks stock up on groceries and hunker down.
    — Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • His family fled New Orleans when the superstorm destroyed his home.
    — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 29 Apr. 2017
  • None of the Army Corps’ recent superstorm protection projects are going to spring up in a major city anytime soon.
    — Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But Caribbean islands also have one of the world’s best defense systems against superstorms like Beryl.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 2 July 2024
  • It has been tapped only once, to address shortages in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy in 2012.
    — Timothy Puko, WSJ, 23 May 2022
  • Changing weather patterns are choking some parts of the world with drought while flooding others in a cacophony of hurricanes and superstorms.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
  • As the next superstorm looms, people in America’s wealthiest neighborhoods might seem to have little to complain about.
    — Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The ravages of climate change have been on display in recent years in the superstorms, floods, rising sea levels, droughts, fires and killing heat waves that will only get worse as the carbon index mounts.
    — Todd Stern, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
  • In it, the AMOC grinds to a halt, causing superstorms to ravage entire cities and mega hurricanes to suck frozen air down from space.
    — Evan Lubofsky, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The ravages of climate change have been on display in recent years in the superstorms, floods, rising sea levels, droughts, fires and deadly heat waves that will only get worse as the carbon index mounts.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
  • Another formation mechanism could be a superstorm, an upwelling of warmer material from Jupiter’s depths that punches out to the cloud tops.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 July 2024
  • Sandy may have been a superstorm, but a utility company says last week’s combination of tornadoes and a macroburst caused more damage to some of the state’s electrical system.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 20 May 2018
  • The invasion or superstorm or missiles would arrive; the characters would run for it; inevitably, some innocent would be sacrificed to the gods who demand such things from novelists.
    — Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • But when another superstorm (named Tammy) descends on their fictional town of Gulfport, threatening to tear it apart, both of them will be put on the same righteous path.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Two years ago, when the tournament was last in Cincinnati, Daniil Medvedev stormed through the men's singles bracket like a Russian superstorm.
    — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The installation will be funded by a mixture of state and federal grants made available after superstorm Sandy in 2012.
    — Kate King, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2019
  • The two record-setting melt events, along with a superstorm that brought hurricane-force winds to the area around Nome, Alaska, were a fitting end to what turned out to be an unusual summer in the high north.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
  • In the decades since, more advanced simulations show how a warming planet could trigger all sorts of calamities, from heat waves and superstorms to desertification and ecosystem collapse.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Nuri's spawn, the Bering Sea superstorm, has kicked the jet stream over North America into an exaggerated wavy pattern.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2014
  • Similar to Jupiter's true superstorms, their activity lasted for months, but unlike true superstorms, their cloud towers only reached modest heights.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Climate change is generating devastating heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, floods and superstorms.
    — Michael E. Mann, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Hurricanes today are both more powerful and wetter, so that the consequences of a city getting in the way of a superstorm in 2023 would likely be cataclysmic.
    — Bill McGuire, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Snoop Dogg breaks down the craziest encounters, the wildest and most unpredictable reactions to discover if America is once again ground zero for the shark superstorm.
    — oregonlive, 11 July 2021
  • After the underwater-housing bubble bursts and a Sandy-like superstorm plunges the city into chaos, the plot turns on the question of whether the government will finally nationalize the banks.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The project on what’s known as the Canarsie Tunnel is needed to repair saltwater damage caused by superstorm Sandy in 2012.
    — Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2017
  • The solar superstorm also demonstrated the negative impact that such space weather can have on space technology, a risk that drives the desire of researchers to develop better space weather prediction.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2026

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