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How to use the word Gusts in a Sentence?

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Robust wind fields should still support strong to severe thunderstorms along the front, primary risk with these storms will be damaging wind gusts.

Storm Prediction Center

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Scattered severe thunderstorms associated with damaging wind gusts, isolated large hail and some tornadoes will be likely from parts of the Ozarks into the mid Mississippi Valley.

The SPC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Spotting, single and group tree torching all contributed to fire growth. Challenges to the control lines occurred in many divisions, as fuel conditions allowed for steady growth. wind gusts have reached 30 mph and relative humidity is still expected to drop with the approaching cold front.

Cal Fire

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Doors and hatches were blown open and there were gusts of wind. No damage has been reported, though.

Steinar Midtskogen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Depending on where you are, wind gusts today are on the border of 40 mph, upwards of 60 mph possible, a lot of the higher winds are going to be in the far northwest part of Colorado and the far northeast part of Utah, stretching down maybe towards the I-70 corridor.

Kris Sanders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I guess within seconds the gusts of the wind blew the little boy off the roof into the water, given the circumstances, I'm not that hopeful.

Richard Johnson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Squalls with gusts to tropical-storm-force are likely north of the warning area along portions of the northeastern coast of Mexico and the lower Texas coast.

The NHC

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I don’t have all the details, but to answer your question, no, it shouldn’t have been in the water if, if what happened, happened, this business has been operating for 47 years and we’ve never had an incident like this or anything close to it. To the best of our knowledge – and we don’t have a lot of information now – but it was a fast-moving storm that came out of basically nowhere is sort of the verbal analysis I’ve got. Weather experts said a strong wind was blowing in the region, and those gusts became even more turbulent on the lake because there are no structures to slow them down.

Jim Pattison

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I don’t have all the details, but to answer your question, no, it shouldn’t have been in the water if, if what happened, happened, this business has been operating for 47 years and we’ve never had an incident like this or anything close to it. To the best of our knowledge – and we don’t have a lot of information now – but it was a fast-moving storm that came out of basically nowhere is sort of the verbal analysis I’ve got. Weather experts said a strong wind was blowing in the region, and those gusts became even more turbulent on the lake because there are no structures to slow it down.

Pattison Jr.

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There's no rain in sight and the winds are going to be 15 miles per hour (24 km per hour) with higher gusts all day, that's a bad combination.

Bob Oravec

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is not good news for them, there's no rain in sight and the winds are going to be 15 mph with higher gusts all day. That's a bad combination.

Bob Oravec

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There's no rain in sight and the winds are going to be 15 mph with higher gusts all day. That's a bad combination.

Bob Oravec

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are expecting very rough and dangerous surf along with damaging tropical-storm-force and hurricane-force winds over the northern Leeward Islands, and tropical-storm-force winds over the southern Leewards to perhaps the northern Windward Islands, mostly in gusts.

Dan Kottlowski

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Boats washed ashore, houses without roofs, windows smashed in, trees snapped in half, gum trees torn out of the ground and those that do remain standing, are bare and lifeless, the wind gusts were so ferocious, they sounded like freight trains passing by. The concrete walls were shaking non-stop all day.

Jacqui McCullagh

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I have gusts of incredible enthusiasm, usually once I’ve signed up out of sheer panic, because if I’m bad, everyone is going to laugh at me. So I try bloody hard, go to enormous trouble to try and be as good as I can.

Hugh Grant

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We really had no warning. The sky just went really black and we had this massive clap of thunder, then the gusts of winds were just horrific, you could hear the roof starting to lift and debris was starting to fly around. All the cars were pretty much destroyed.

Meredith Sullivan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Then the gusts of winds were just horrific, you could hear the roof starting to lift and debris was starting to fly around. All the cars were pretty much destroyed.

Meredith Sullivan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Gusts 50 to 60 mph (80-97 kph) possible. Downed trees & lines likely.

The National Weather Service

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

George Eliot

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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