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
There is nothing to be heard but the sharp whistle of the dry snow—the same dreary music which accompanies the African simoom.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor
Among these winds are the simoom and sirocco.
From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson
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
I should think they must resemble the African simoom.
From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles
