hail

[heɪl]

Definition:
1. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
2. Enthusiastic greeting.
3. Praise vociferously.
4. Be a native of.
5. Call for.

Use 'hail' in a sentence:

1. All hail the great Browser War!
2. The Mercs hail from a town in southern Germany called Affalterbach.
3. He hails from an affluent background.
4. Many are hailing Rendell's ideas as visionary.
5. The victim was hit by a hail of bullets.
6. As they smash up neat Georgian barracks, the Russians curse their own poverty and hail their victory at the same time.
7. He gave them hail for rain, and flames on their land.
8. US magazines hailed her as the greatest rock'n'roll singer in the world.
9. The President's speech was hailed as a conciliatory gesture toward business.
10. A nearby volcano erupted violently, sending out a hail of molten rock and boiling mud.
11. He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
12. This argument has attracted a lot of attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who both hail from MIT's Center for Digital Business.
13. By the close of business last night, most of the big firms were hailing yesterday's actions as a success.
14. Tulips actually hail from an area that Chinese call the Celestial Mountains in Central Asia.
15. The scheme has been hailed as an unprecedented success.
16. It was so fine this morning. Who would have thought it would hail in the afternoon!
17. We hail as masterpieces the cave paintings in southern France and elsewhere, dating back some 20,000 years.
18. Hail was hammering down onto the roof.
19. He died as any self-respecting gangster should — in a hail of bullets.
20. Hail to the new champion Bengali D'Albret.
21. We hail from all corners of the country.
22. Laura flits about New York hailing taxis at every opportunity.
23. While the battle raged, the bullets flew thick as hail.
24. Jill saw him and hailed him.
25. Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst h, hear!
26. Hail fell in some parts of the Chinese capital.
27. They will next apply the system to predict snow and hail.
28. The hail is lashing down on the roof.
29. Newcomers hail the quality of life.
30. Teenager Matt Brown is being hailed a hero for saving a young child from drowning.
31. It started to hail, huge great stones.
32. The pattering increased till it sounded like sudden hail on the dry leaf-carpet spread around him.
33. The riot police were met with a hail of stones and petrol bombs.
34. Suddenly, a voice hailed us and there was Miss Quigley.
35. The deal was hailed by the Defence Secretary.
36. They hail from all parts of the country.
37. The band hail from Glasgow.
38. Then the large hail golf-ball sized?
39. He hailed this week's arms agreement but in the same breath expressed suspicion about the motivations of the United States.
40. When the movie came out the critics went wild, hailing Tarantino as the golden boy of the 1990s.
41. Ending in a hail of feedback, this gets, 4.5/5 .
42. Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation.
43. I'll hail it as a great bipartisan solution.
44. I hurried away to hail a taxi.
45. No amount of foul weather, whether hail, wind, rain or snow, seems to deter them.
46. His father hailed from Italy.
47. I hailed a passing taxi.
48. Mickelson was hailed as the wonder boy of American golf.
49. A voice hailed us from the other side of the street.
50. His discovery was hailed as the botanical find of the century.
51. This is a film which seems to hail from the hippie era.
52. "We think we could prevent hail by inducing lightning," he says.
53. We drove through hail and snow.
54. The discovery is being hailed as The Holy Grail of astronomy.