TYPHOON in a Sentence

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1. In May a typhoon hit the Philippines.
2. The football match have to stand over next week for the typhoon storm.
3. When the typhoon struck, we were afraid our ship might not be able to weather the storm.
4. More than 3,600 Filipinos rode out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, and churches.
5. The most important thing about when a typhoon is approaching, it's a lot like when a hurricane is approaching in the U.S.

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 Meanings and Examples of TYPHOON
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typhoon
 n.  tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific; violent whirlwind
Classic Sentence:
1  Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms of all four oceans, her old hull's complexion was darkened like a French grenadier's, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
Example Sentence:
1  When the typhoon struck, we were afraid our ship might not be able to weather the storm.
2  In May a typhoon hit the Philippines.
3  The football match have to stand over next week for the typhoon storm.
4  More than 3,600 Filipinos rode out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, and churches.
5  The most important thing about when a typhoon is approaching, it's a lot like when a hurricane is approaching in the U.S.
6  Satellites track typhoons, monitor volcanic-ash plumes and catalogue the changing ways in which human beings use the land.