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

Her sire, who, upon his trackless wilds, could have outstripped the pestilent simoom; and with throat unslaked, and hunger unappeased, could thrice have seen the scorching sun go down, had not greater powers of endurance.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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

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