How to Use typhoon in a Sentence

typhoon

noun
  • Turnout may be hurt by a typhoon on course for the south of the country.
    — Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The typhoon came at night after a heavy day of rough seas and high winds.
    — Rebecca Saunders, CNN, 11 July 2021
  • Mawar was one of the strongest typhoons to hit Guam in decades.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
  • Waves of anxiety knocked me about like a dinghy in a typhoon.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • During the typhoon, many of us sought shelter at the well for much of the day.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Curse the earthquake or typhoon, or the space agency that sent them to Mars?
    — New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Ready to ride through the typhoon head-on, the team tied everything down and waited.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 23 Aug. 2021
  • This would be the first time casinos have closed since a typhoon in 2018.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • What was left of a typhoon earlier in the week added to water levels.
    — Ken Moritsugu, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
  • As is typical for fall storms in Alaska, this one was a typhoon at one point.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Hong Kong stocks were closed last Friday because of a typhoon.
    — Laura He, CNN, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But both invasions were struck by massive typhoons.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
  • Months have gone by since the late 2014 typhoon rocked Hong Kong.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
  • When a typhoon hits the town, neither is deterred from honoring their plans.
    — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The heavy rain and floods follow the country being hit by two typhoons over the last couple of months.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Typically five to eight typhoons hit the city each year, but not all bring traffic and schools to a halt.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Asia, 18 June 2024
  • In the western Pacific, these same storms are known as typhoons.
    — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The toll was high, even for a country prone to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and typhoons.
    — Ken Moritsugu, Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • The Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons and storms each year.
    — ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • The country is also battered by about 20 typhoons and storms each year.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The typhoon has killed at least 35 people and caused widespread damage.
    — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2019
  • About 20 storms and typhoons batter the Philippines each year.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
  • About 20 typhoons and storms batter the Philippines each year.
    — Jim Gomez, SFChronicle.com, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Another typhoon is forecast to pass through the area where the cargo ship sank in the coming days.
    — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • And not through the typhoon that pulled away huge deck structures along the way to the port city of Nagasaki.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But in the second half, three major typhoons – as hurricanes are known in this part of the world – stirred up the ocean.
    — Noel Gutiérrez Brizuela, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • In France, one of Le Monde’s top stories was the typhoon in Tokyo.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Video shows what happened when remnants of the typhoon hit Alaska and caused flooding.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Moreover, the atoll is vulnerable to typhoons, storm surges, as well as long-term sea level rise.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The quake that summer came just days after the largest typhoon recorded in 25 years struck Japan.
    — Ben Dooley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2021

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