Cloudburst
in sentence
3 examples of Cloudburst in a sentence
This is over and above the many thousands in the Hunza region, who in January lost everything on account of a
cloudburst
that wiped out several villages and created a highly unstable artificial lake.
A country where a majority of the population still consults astrologers can well appreciate a sport in which an ill-timed cloudburst, a badly prepared pitch, a lost toss, or the sun in the eyes of a fielder can transform a game’s outcome.
It takes millennia for fertile topsoil to form; in many places, a
cloudburst
is now all it takes to wash it away.
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