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hailstone
[ heyl-stohn ]
noun
- a pellet of hail.
hailstone
/ ˈheɪlˌstəʊn /
noun
- a pellet of hail
Other Words From
- hailstoned adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of hailstone1
Example Sentences
“Mobile real estate” is becoming an asset class unto itself, a wise investment for a world where flooding could sweep away your home, giant hailstones could smash through its roof, or a sinkhole could emerge at the end of your driveway.
More than a year after Operation Hailstone, Japan surrendered.
Opening this, he exposed to the reporter's bewildered gaze a huge and brilliant diamond—nearly as large as a hailstone.
Dante's poetry seems to come down in hail, rather than in rain—but count me the drops congealed in one hailstone!
A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.
Though I was semi-unconscious I remember the bullets beating the ground like hailstone on a March day.
A heavy shower of hail was falling,--each hailstone about the size of an egg.
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