"sustained" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A sustained south wind will cut off this source of oxygen.
- The weather reports talked about sustained winds of 145 miles per hour.
- Sustained winds must be 75 miles an hour or higher for a storm to qualify as a hurricane.
- It carried sustained winds of 80 miles per hour and gusts to 87.
- At its peak intensity, it was a strong Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour.
- From 1995 to 2003, 32 major hurricanes, with sustained winds of 111 miles per hour or greater, stormed across the Atlantic.
- The highest sustained wind recorded with Tammy was 50 mph, reported a few miles northeast of the center.
- The tidal surge was recorded at 12 feet and the sustained winds were in excess of 120 miles per hour.
- A storm is considered a hurricane when its sustained winds reach 74 m.p.h.
- Barbados experienced the highest sustained winds Joyce brought to any land area.
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