How to Use landfall in a Sentence

landfall

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  • From the deck of the boat, we saw our first landfall.
  • By the end of the play, Life of Pi wraps back around to its big lessons, making landfall again in the land of the vague and obvious.
    — Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Ian is one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall in the United States.
    — Victoria Ballard, Sun Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Little change to the location of landfall and effects of the storm.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The storm made its first landfall in February, then made a rare loop and hit again.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Hurst was last seen on last seen on the boat the day Hurricane Ian made landfall on Sept. 28, per the outlet.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The surge can raise water levels on rivers miles inland from the point of landfall.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 30 May 2023
  • Even the hurricanes that don’t make landfall leave their mark.
    — Leah Tyler, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022
  • DeSantis left the campaign trail ahead of the storm's landfall to return to his home state.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But where exactly landfall will occur is still up in the air.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The system is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua on Sunday.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
  • In a worst-case scenario, the area would face its first direct landfall of a major hurricane in more than 100 years.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Nicole would be the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States in November in nearly 40 years.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Hundreds of people were rescued, and the death toll has been climbing days after Ian's landfall.
    — Tracy J. Wholf, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Idalia's landfall caused tide levels to surge in Cedar Key and surrounding areas.
    — Cecilia Garzella, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The storm, which caused at least two deaths, was the first November hurricane to make landfall in Florida in 37 years and only the third on record.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
  • More storms are predicted to make landfall in coming weeks.
    — Suryatapa Bhattacharya, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The area where the storm came ashore remained within the cone of uncertainty for the full five days between formation and landfall.
    — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The storm is expected to make landfall in the western part of the coastal province of Guangdong later Saturday.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2022
  • Ian’s landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast earlier in the week.
    — Time, 1 Oct. 2022
  • People in the region brace for storms that sometimes make landfall with only a short lead time and leave billions of dollars in damage.
    — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • While landfall was projected for nearby Nova Scotia, the storm was big enough to cause concerns over a wide area.
    — David Sharp and Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Why aren't there reports of higher winds after landfall?
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Imagine that a hurricane makes landfall and cuts off a city from receiving gasoline for a few days.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Ian is moving north at 15 mph after making landfall on the coast of South Carolina on Friday.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This means, says Rhoades, that the size of the atmospheric rivers making landfall are expected to be larger.
    — Nathan Gilles, oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Orlene lost strength rapidly after making landfall near the borders of Nayarit and Sinaloa states and pushed inland.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The potential Julia could make landfall in Nicaragua on Sunday as a hurricane.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 7 Oct. 2022
  • As Ian, now a tropical storm, works toward a second U.S. landfall, high clouds are streaming into our region ahead of it.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Though landfall is two days away, the governor and safety officials are already looking to keep residents safe once the storm has passed and the damage is done.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022

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