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Before striking land, the cyclone wreaked havoc at sea.
He claimed it would be impossible for any cyclone to create a storm wave which could threaten the city.
A powerful cyclone killed 120,000 people along the coast.
The latest weather report shows the Arctic cyclone passing to the west of us.

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Examples from literature

Her words hurtled like flying missiles in a cyclone. 
It is as if the storm-clouds within are moving like a whirling cyclone. 
The cyclone's driving swirl, the storm-tossed seas. 
The storm raged, and the cyclone overwhelmed the land. 
There are storms of wind and rain called cyclones. 

cyclone | American Dictionary

cyclone
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsɑɪ·kloʊn/
a violent and often destructive storm in which the wind moves very fast in a circular direction

Examples of cyclone

cyclone
Their recruitment rates were virtually nil prior to, and 1.6-3.2% for intervals following, the four cyclones.
Strains having these profiles were randomly selected from different cyclone affected areas.
In the long term, such interactions may caution against pursuing forest management in cyclone-prone areas.
Epidemics from pests and diseases, as well as droughts and cyclones, only made matters worse.
The structure of the classic cyclone is contained in all introductory texts on meteorology.
No such significant differences in canopy openness before the cyclone existed between logged and old-growth forest.
An image cyclone is generated near the left-hand wall by the normal flow boundary condition, and the cyclone-anticyclone pair propagates dgwnstream.
The cyclones are discernably stronger than the anticyclones, implying the presence of a cyclonic shear over the forcing region.
Dotted lines correspond to cyclones, and solid lines to anticyclones.
The potential flow is towards the sink position and the creation of a cyclone is thus easily explained.
He attributed this to the passage of a cyclone.
It thus appears that a history of selective logging need not predispose a site to an unnaturally high degree of cyclone damage.
Figure 1 compares canopy openness at the site before and after the cyclone.
Of the remaining 2030 stems, 129 (6% + 1%) were dead from cyclone damage and 506 (25% + 2%) had experienced major damage.
The cyclone is created when a mass of warm air intrudes northward into a large mass of cold air.
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