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View synonyms for hailstorm

hailstorm

[ heyl-stawrm ]

noun

  1. a storm with hail.


hailstorm

/ ˈheɪlˌstɔːm /

noun

  1. a storm during which hail falls


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hailstorm1

First recorded in 1675–85; hail 2 + storm

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Example Sentences

“God is great,” says a man who follows the hailstorm from his doorway.

Car owners will thus know when to postpone trips, or to pull off the road when a hailstorm is approaching.

Most unluckily the weather began to cloud over, and soon a sharp hailstorm began, with every indication of a fog.

I hope we shall give our northern enemies that hailstorm of bullets which gives our dear country the dominion of the sea.

He sat, propped up on the bed, watching the morning sun melt the night's hailstorm into the fields.

The bullets rained as thick in the water as you ever saw a hailstorm.

Through a hailstorm we flew to the long-loved aerodrome at Luxeuil.

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hailstone“Hail to the Chief”