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hailstone
[ heyl-stohn ]
noun
- a pellet of hail.
hailstone
/ ˈheɪlˌstəʊn /
noun
- a pellet of hail
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- hailstoned adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hailstone1
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Example Sentences
More than a year after Operation Hailstone, Japan surrendered.
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Opening this, he exposed to the reporter's bewildered gaze a huge and brilliant diamond—nearly as large as a hailstone.
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Dante's poetry seems to come down in hail, rather than in rain—but count me the drops congealed in one hailstone!
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A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.
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Though I was semi-unconscious I remember the bullets beating the ground like hailstone on a March day.
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A heavy shower of hail was falling,--each hailstone about the size of an egg.
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