noun
definition
Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
verb
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Of hail, to fall from the sky.
example
They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
definition
To send or release hail.
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The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
definition
To pour down in rapid succession.
Examples of hail in a Sentence
I had hail damage to my car as well.
She dropped to the sand as a hail of bullets whistled above her head.
Thunder rattled the windowpane and hail pounded on the roof.
The precipitation of rain, snow and hail is about 55 in.
From December to February violent thunder and hail storms are experienced.
Almost as the commands were given, the French suddenly opened an overwhelming long-range fire and their bullets swept like hail through the crowded mass of the German troops.
It is less easy to provide against the evils of excessive rainfall and of frost, hail and the like.
Thunder exploded and then the hail started, drumming on the roof like large marbles.
Fogs and hail are rare, but, as in all treeless countries, the rain comes in unequal quantities, and cloudbursts are not unknown.
In the northern part of Arabia the crystalline rocks form a broad area extending from the peninsula of Sinai eastwards to Hail and southwards at least as far as Mecca.
The population of Khaibar consists almost entirely of the latter, and in Hail Huber estimates the pure Arab inhabitants at only one-third of the whole.
Hail to thee, Ra, when thou returnest home in renewed beauty, crowned and almighty."
To archaeology also his services were of equal importance, for, besides copying numerous inscriptions in the district between Hail and Tema, he succeeded in gaining possession of the since famous Tema stone, which ranks with the Moabite stone among the most valuable of Semitic inscriptions.
He read also the older Church Fathers and soon won for himself fame as a student, whilst his skill in the classics led his friends to hail him as "the undoubted Cicero of our age."
Hail storms are of frequent occurrence in the Carpathians.
The storms serve to modify the intense heat, though the lightning and hail cause considerable damage.
The larger antelopes, so common on the African side of the Gulf of Aden, are not found, except one variety, the Oryx beatrix (called by the Arabs, wild cow), which is an inhabitant of the Nafud between Tema and Hail; it is about the size of a donkey, white, and with long straight horns.
The excavation of the rock temple of Abu Simbel and the completion of the great hail of Karnak were his greatest achievements in architecture.
Lord Hailes's younger daughter married Sir 1 " Hail," a call of greeting or salutation, a shout to attract attention, must, of course, be distinguished.
A thunderstorm, with hail and intense cold, increased their confusion, and on Brennus himself being wounded they took to flight, pursued by the Greeks all the way back to Thermopylae.
Hajjaj had set up a balista on the hill of Abu Qobais, whence he.poured on the city a hail of stones, which was suspended only in the days of the pilgrimage.
It consists of three texts describing the mystery, recited as versicle and response alternately with the salutation "Hail, Mary!"
I hey overwhelmed their enemy under a hail of arrows, and never allowed him to come to close quarters.
His strong conservative tendencies led him to oppose the doctrine of free trade, and disposed him to hail the coup d'etat and the new empire.
If my mother knew, she'd drop to her knees and say a million Hail Mary's in thanks!
Jessie can't hail a cab on the streets then sees a police car cruise by.
You can use a loud decrescendo as a hail call to initially get the ducks attention.
The Dent Company can fix hail damage, door dings, creases and dents softball size and sometimes.. .
Greens hail decision over paths in clear areas Moves to reopen paths in unaffected areas have been welcomed by environmentalists.
There were 2 days with hail; ice pellets fell on the 19th and hail stones of more than 11mm on the 20th.
There were 5 days when hail or 5mm, or more, were observed including 10-15mm diameter hailstones on 20th August.
The hail lingered about for two or three days after, and seemed loth to leave.
The best-known Buddhist mantra is ' Om Mane Padme Hom ' which means ' Hail the jewel in the lotus ' .
Today the weather is very cold and squally, occasionally had hail then sleet.
Sunday 7th March was a mixed-up day - sunny one moment, a hail storm the next with drizzle now and then for compromise.
You can also hail a water taxi, usually a small fishing boat to take you to Calis.
The path grew steeper and the snow grew thicker, quite uneven in parts and soon there was hail too.
This is the second CD from The Jime, who hail from Denmark and are led by vocalist, guitarist and producer Vince Gordon.
Showers turning wintry during the morning with some small hail.
His cosmopolitanism - which makes him in the modern Imperialist's eyes a "Little Englander" of the straitest sect - led him to deplore any survival of the colonial system and to hail the removal of ties which bound the mother country to remote dependencies; but it was, in its day, a generous and sincere reaction against popular sentiment, and Cobden was at all events an outspoken advocate of an irresistible British navy.
On the twelfth of July, on the eve of that action, there was a heavy storm of rain and hail.
Then they rode downhill and uphill, across a ryefield trodden and beaten down as if by hail, following a track freshly made by the artillery over the furrows of the plowed land, and reached some fleches * which were still being dug.
Squall line 1840 with 5 mm hail turning to heavy snow.
On Thompson, the high trees were filled with birds, and their chatter sounded like squalls of hail and glass.
Special emphasis will be laid on the diagnostic of hail and supercooled water and on the discrimination between rain and snow.
It 's not natural - the tic-tac hail storms the evil tic-tac tyrant who has taken over sweetie planet makes it happen .
A thunderstorm with large hail missed Stanley by a few miles.
During the morning the showers, moderate at times, turned wintry with small hail at times.
Acai berries hail from the rain forest areas of South America.
Cassoulet and pate de foie gras hail from this area.