1.   A severe drought caused most of the crops to fail, then winds reaching hurricane force destroyed what was left.

2.   Everywhere, too, there are typhoons, sometimes of hurricane force.

3.   A one-two punch of storms from the Carolinas, their winds flirting with hurricane force, pummeled and drenched the New York metropolitan region on Friday night and Saturday.

4.   Diminished winds may be less than hurricane force.

5.   Even the Florida coast, where Barry made landfall just shy of hurricane force, showed little ill effects.

6.   Fashions reached hurricane force.

7.   For Hytner, the animating principle of the film was that repressed sexuality gathered hurricane force and tore the community apart.

8.   His improvisational monologues have hurricane force.

9.   In the end, the Lakers survived fatigue, immaturity and the hurricane force of Luc Longley.

10.   It was the warm water that pumped up Nora to hurricane force before it was downgraded to a tropical storm.