hailstone
/heyl-stohn/US // ˈheɪlˌstoʊn //UK // (ˈheɪlˌstəʊn) //
雹石,雹子,冰雹石,冰雹
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n.名词 noun
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- : a pellet of hail.
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More than a year after Operation Hailstone, Japan surrendered.
Opening this, he exposed to the reporter's bewildered gaze a huge and brilliant diamond—nearly as large as a hailstone.
Dante's poetry seems to come down in hail, rather than in rain—but count me the drops congealed in one hailstone!
A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.
Though I was semi-unconscious I remember the bullets beating the ground like hailstone on a March day.
A heavy shower of hail was falling,--each hailstone about the size of an egg.
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