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

We are told that on the 17th of June, 1859, there was much more of a genuine simoom.

From Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California by Leighton, Caroline C.

He had not lived long enough under the hot breath of the simoom to have all the early associations withered and crisped.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

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

In the choking breath of the simoom he feels the potentialities of God, and his own helpless impotence.

From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Leonard, Arthur Glyn