What transported Dorothy to Oz

Usage examples of tornado.

The rest I was prepared to dismiss airily as some sort of unfortunate aberration brought about by the exceptional circumstances of the tornado.

The tornado of wind whistled loudly around us and up into the heavens, almost knocking Adeem off his feet.

Thanks to a chance sheltering in a dense crop of araucaria this young male had survived the tornado, suffering no worse injury than a snapped rib.

Alan glanced back at Cozy, who, given his vocation--defending individuals whose impulses had temporarily overwhelmed their judgment--had spent more than his share of hours fencing in the excesses of people whose emotional health was about as stable as a trailer park in a tornado.

Kent, out the other side in about thirty seconds like the White Tornado inna Superman suit, whoo-eee, hah, hah, hah!

Behind me, I could hear the high scream, like a tornado inbound, of the next aircraft coming down over the deck.

The princess had given indications that if Inula brought them such a young woman, she would be rewarded, perhaps even welcomed into the Secret Cult, the cult of the goddess of Gingo-La in her secret manifestation as Death-in-Life, the Mother with wire hair and steel hands, the death bringer and goddess of the tornado.

The weather on the Escarpment was often violent, with katabatic winds rushing downslope and colliding with the Syrtis trade winds to create tall fast red tornadoes, or onslaughts of gritty hail.

As Fortune magazine headlined a feature article a year after the new drug swept, like a tornado, upon the pharmaceutical scene: 409 FELDING-ROTH FINDS RICH IS BETTER Fortune estimated that the first year of Peptide 7 sales would bring in revenues of six hundred million dollars.

Northerly winds swept the upper half of the globe, bearing poleward, then swerving toward the west to make the occasional mild tornado.

I could hear everything-as the two choppers touched down in cold tornadoes of dust and vomited their loads, as a boat full of rangers and cops hit the shores of my Rox and scrambled out.

But so we do not leave Lowespass undefended, I recommend that Tornado and Vireo, and Staniel remain here with the Awian Fyrd.

Daniels was a summer tornado, Lian decided, as he sat by the Mountie Depot holopanel.

I thought, if I were caught in a newsworthy tragedy: he would be about as compassionate as a tornado.

Although it would be hard to explain the properties of a tornado in terms of the physics of electrons and quarks, I see this as a matter of calculational impasse, not an indicator of the need for new physical laws.