🇬🇧 Hailstone meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A hailstone is a small, round piece of ice that falls from the clouds during a storm. It is harder than a snowflake and feels like a tiny rock made of ice. Hailstones can be as small as a pea or sometimes as big as a golf ball. They fall quickly from the sky, bounce on the ground, and can hurt if they hit you, so people usually stay inside when hailstones are falling.

A hailstone dropped down my back and my scream hit a higher note than the school music teacher.

One hailstone bounced into my shoe and my foot instantly learned what “Yikes!” feels like.

I tried to catch a hailstone on my tongue, but it bounced off my nose instead.

My sister said each hailstone is a snowflake that went to the gym and got really tough.

Some hailstones can grow bigger than a baseball, so it’s like the sky is playing extremely dangerous frozen catch.

A boy watched the sudden storm as each hailstone tapped the tin roof. One hailstone smashed a flower pot; another hailstone struck the garden chair. A small hailstone rolled off his glove and a cold hailstone bounced from the path into a puddle. He scooped the cat inside and laughed at the tap of the last hailstone.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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