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Waterspout in sentence

9 examples of Waterspout in a sentence

The torrent was roaring over their heads, and they at last reached the pit-eye beneath a veritable waterspout.
He went down lower, lost in the midst of these chasms which continued to multiply, beaten and turned round by the waterspout of the springs, so badly lighted by the red star of the lamp moving on below, that he seemed to distinguish the roads and squares of some destroyed town far away in the play of the great moving shadows.
But at 12:53 in the morning, a deafening hiss became audible, resembling the sound made by a waterspout expelled with tremendous intensity.
"But we must carefully avoid this waterspout, which would sink our raft in a moment."
A waterspout, an immense liquid column, was beating upon the surface of the waters.
In fact, a balloon, as a ball might be carried on the summit of a waterspout, had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour, turning round and round as if seized by some aerial maelstrom.
"My friends," resumed Harding, "you remember that before she foundered the brig rose on the summit of a regular waterspout?""Yes, captain," replied Herbert.
"Well, would you like to know what occasioned that waterspout?
With his hair in disorder, and without his hat, he ran along the street as never man was seen to run before, overturning passers-by, rushing over the sidewalk like a waterspout.