Object

• cab: Jessie can't hail a cab on the streets then sees a police car cruise by.

• taxi: You can also hail a water taxi, usually a small fishing boat to take you to Calis.

• success: However, it was still hailed a success by police.

• hero: If you cheat or defeat the system then all well and good, you are hailed a hero.

• achievement: The government has hailed this achievement as a '20 year high ' in teaching numbers.

Subject

• critic: Released in February 1977 Marquee Moon was hailed by critics as one of the most striking and original recording debuts in years.

Preposition: as

• savior: They were hailed as potential saviors for they were expected to lead Lincoln to Division Two safety.

• masterpiece: Houellebecq's novel about a French civil servant's voyage of self discovery as a tourist in Thailand has been hailed as a masterpiece.

• breakthrough: Investing in communities, as it's known, was hailed as a breakthrough.

• hero: He raises the alarm and is hailed as a hero.

• triumph: The 250-metre high structure was designed by Sir Norman Foster and is already being hailed as an engineering triumph.

• genius: Phillips deserves to be rescued from obscurity and hailed as the genius he is.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

• soccer: Soccer: Parky hails young guns Soccer: Liam's happy with points Soccer: Port Vale 0-1 Colchester.. .

Modifies a noun

• storm: A harvest can be devastated by a freak hail storm in August.

• shower: The poem finishes with the girls, " dispersing like a quick hail shower / into the streets of Aberdare " .

• stone: There were 2 days with hail; ice pellets fell on the 19th and hail stones of more than 11mm on the 20th.

Preposition: of

• gunfire: Then a hail of gunfire splattered the wall behind him.

• bullet: Radley, waiting for orders, delayed his own withdrawal till the last possible moment, and drove away through a hail of bullets.

• arrow: Alison chooses a different shot, where the birds dart from left to right like a hail of arrows.

Preposition: by

• critic: Released in February 1977 Marquee Moon was hailed by critics as one of the most striking and original recording debuts in years.