noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hurricane lamp (= a lamp with a strong glass cover, which protects the light from the wind )
gale force/hurricane force winds (= very strong )
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He was buffeted by the gale force winds.
Hurricane Katrina
hurricane lamp
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
force
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Near hurricane force winds and free-roaming sheep put paid to early attempts at planting flowers and shrubs.
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A severe drought caused most of the crops to fail, then winds reaching hurricane force destroyed what was left.
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Everywhere, too, there are typhoons, sometimes of hurricane force .
lamp
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The light from the hurricane lamp fell on your hair.
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The room was lit by a single kerosene hurricane lamp in the center of the table and a few candles.
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Hanging from the central pole was a hurricane lamp that suffused the man and woman with an orange glow.
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Policemen were poking among the ruins by the fence, shining hurricane lamps .
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A white hurricane lamp burned in the window.
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I went inside and came back out with a hurricane lamp .
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The hurricane lamp swung within reach - I could turn it out when I wanted to.
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A hurricane lamp was hung on another nail.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gale/hurricane force wind
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As the Sea King hovered in gale force winds, alarms warned of engine trouble.
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Near hurricane force winds and free-roaming sheep put paid to early attempts at planting flowers and shrubs.
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Read in studio Hurricane force winds are hampering efforts to save seals caught in the Shetland oil slick.
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The superstar's Coral Gables mansion was battered by gale force winds which left windows smashed and wrecked her garden.
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The tanker, the Braer, crashed into the rocky coast in heavy seas and gale force winds.
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The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As if enraged at its defeat by the mountains, the hurricane once more turned inland.
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If I resembled her emotionally, I was in for years of domestic hurricane .
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In 1842 six ships were at anchor in Funchal Bay when a hurricane blew them all on to the shore.
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So the fares were collected, the ship was going come hurricane , cyclone, what-have-you.
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The hurricane arrival of Alanis Morissette.
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The hurricane would drive Golden Girl where it willed.
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They had the shattering, overwhelming strength of earthquake and hurricane and volcano.
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Trent knew that Mariana was waiting for the hurricane to fall on them.