Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
storm or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The kindness of everyone has me sitting here with tears streaming down my face — it is bittersweet, and bathes me like a gentle warming rain, rather than the brutal stormlike assault the pathology report caused.
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Whatever greetings he normally uttered leapt from his mind the instant he met Arthur Kobrine's stern and stormlike gaze over the viewer.
The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000
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And so her adolescence came in suddenly, almost stormlike, uprooting little forests of sapling traditions.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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All that obscure need, that new stirring of moral life within her -- which had found issue in this little futile advance towards a man who had once loved her and could now, it seemed, only despise and dislike, her -- was beating and swelling stormlike within her.
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
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