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 an His simple manners. exceedingly hot day and the simoom was blowing fiercely.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

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

It was an ostrich, fleeing in mortal terror before the simoom.

From The Scarlet Banner by Dahn, Felix