twister

The F4 twister cut a long swath of destruction that crossed just four blocks from my house.

The big twister on Monday had no sooner moved on than the paramedics were there.

The other injuries from this latest twister largely seemed to come from flying debris.

When the twister tore through Moore, Mona Thomas lost everything.

If that is so, then the twister was a measure of the forces we are playing with.

"Yuh couldn't ride Twister, yuh know yuh couldn't," Pink objected gently.

Jack was fully qualified to assume this task, and it was seldom they were ever able to stump him with a twister.

Moreover, Jviii does not even revolve in a closed orbit; its path is an open twister of unreturning turns.

"Yes, I reckon it will be more exciting than that cyclone twister that came near wafting us away," Jim said.

And the time-honoured rhyme, "When a twister a twisting," etc., has been traced back by Halliwell to a collection of 1674.