Storms raged around the lighthouse tower.

Meaning: The lighthouse was in the middle of a very bad storm.

Choice of Words: Storms are violent weather events with strong winds and rain. Raged means to behave in a wild and uncontrolled way. Tower is a tall, narrow building.

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The storms were very angry around the lighthouse tower.

Meaning: This means that there was a really bad storm happening near the lighthouse, and it was like the storm was really mad.

Choice of Words: Storms are strong winds and rain, were means that they existed in the past, very means that they were really bad, angry means that they were like a person who is mad and lighthouse tower is a tall building with a light on top to help ships at sea. When you put them together, it means that there were very strong winds and rain that were like an angry person around the lighthouse.

There was a big mess of wind and rain around the lighthouse tower.

Meaning: This means that there was a really bad storm happening near the lighthouse, and it was like the storm was really messy.

Choice of Words: Mess means a lot of things that are not in order, wind is the air moving, rain is water falling from the sky, around means on all sides of something and lighthouse tower is a tall building with a light on top to help ships at sea. When you put them together, it means that there was a lot of wind and rain that was all around the lighthouse.

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