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

Despite the arguments of the landlord and my own man that it was dangerous to set out in the face of a simoom, we started, taking the route towards Hathor Set.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

We came, as the simoom creeps over the plain; We came, as the tiger its covert forsakes; As the hurricane brushes the dust from the brakes; As the lightning leaps out and the thunder-god shakes.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt

He's the oasis in the desert of my life; but the counting-room simoom comes along and dries him up, every now and then.

From The Quality of Mercy by Howells, William Dean

The monsoon and simoom, In the soft empurpled Orient, At mention of thy name Doff all the hats of Heathendom!

From Cobwebs from a Library Corner by Bangs, John Kendrick