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
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 Charles Carleton Coffin
But I'd as lief encounter a West India hurricane or a simoom.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
The simoom is unmistakably a wind, and surely no one who has not had the experience can appreciate it.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
No desert simoom, if it had passed over it, could have effected it more thoroughly.
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
