simoom

Example Sentences

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If you happen to be in Africa and stuck in a “hot, dry, suffocating sand-wind” which sweeps across the deserts at intervals during the spring, you should know that you are in a simoom.

From Time • Mar. 20, 2014

This great domain of the simoom has every diversity of surface.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

No desert simoom, if it had passed over it, could have effected it more thoroughly.

From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

Despair not in calamities of a gladdening that shall wipe away thy sorrows; For how many a simoom blows, then turns to a gentle breeze, and is changed!

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Jefferies, Richard

It was sad to see the wounded drag themselves back to the woods, to escape the storm, more terrible than the blast of the simoom, sweeping over the field.

From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton