Collocations for "hail"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "hail" in context.
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hail
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [softball, golf-ball] -sized hail
- the hail was the size of [softballs]
- the hail was [softball] -sized
- was [damaged, dented] in the hail
- the hail came [bucketing, chucking, pouring] down
- expecting hail and [sleet, snow]
- drove through the hail
- had to drive through the hail
- a hail of [bullets, arrows, gunfire]
- [downed, killed, taken out] by a hail of [gunfire]
- answered the hail of the [trapped victims, marooned passengers]
- it is hailing [outside, out there]
- it [began, started] to hail
- it is hailing [golf balls, baseballs]
- hailed down on [them, the car, the street]
- hail a (passing) [cab, taxi]
- hails from [France]
- is being hailed as the (world's) [first, best, greatest, biggest]
- has been hailed as a hero
- all hail the [president, leader, champion]!
- suffered hail damage
'hail' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):