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The resulting mix is a ball of slush just solid enough to stay together, but definitely mushier than, say, a hailstone; picture a wet snowball.—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2025 One man was hit by a softball-size hailstone that shattered his skull.—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2025 Photos from the Oklahoma City area sent to CNN affiliate KOCO late Saturday showed hailstones ranging from about the size of a quarter to a golf ball, many of them spiked.—Matthew Rehbein, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025 Texas is being battered by huge hailstones the size of quarters, powerful winds of up to 65mph and thunderstorms on Christmas Eve.—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hailstone
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of hailstone was
before the 12th century
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