How to Use waterspout in a Sentence

waterspout

noun
  • What are the two kinds of waterspouts?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • What are the two kinds of waterspouts?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • What are the two kinds of waterspouts?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • What are the two kinds of waterspouts?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • What are the two types of waterspouts?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • What are the two types of waterspouts?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Will there be more waterspouts this week?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Will there be more waterspouts this week?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Will there be more waterspouts this week?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Will there be more waterspouts this week?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • How many waterspouts formed on the Great Lakes last week?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • How many waterspouts did the Great Lakes see?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Will the Great Lakes see waterspouts this week?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Will the Great Lakes see waterspouts this week?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Prany turned on all the waterspouts, the showerhead, and the faucet.
    — Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • The video montage next shows a waterspout tossing kayaks and boats into the air.
    — Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Also in the mix was freezing rain, thunder snow and at least one waterspout.
    — John Hopewell, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • This isn't the first time a waterspout has been spotted off Destin.
    — Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
  • More footage of that waterspout that was near Destin this morning.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The fair-weather waterspout forms over water.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • How many waterspouts did the Great Lakes see Sunday?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Mehrlich said airport staff, too, initially thought the fish were carried by a waterspout.
    — Dallas News, 22 June 2022
  • How many waterspouts formed on the Great Lakes Sunday?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Beach conditions will be hazardous with big waves and even a chance of a waterspout or coastal tornado along the cold front.
    — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Thunderstorms, small hail, gusty winds and even an isolated waterspout are all on the table.
    — Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That perfect storm of waterspout conditions hit Italy around the time the Bayesian sank.
    — Alec Luhn, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
  • This glass bath is shallow enough for birds of all sizes to splash and also includes a pleasant mini waterspout in the center.
    — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2022
  • Then, the captain alerted the team that a waterspout—or a tornado that whirls over water—was forming off the port bow.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 June 2019
  • There is also a chance of small hail, and waterspouts over waters off the California coast.
    — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Here's what to know about waterspout activity.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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