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

No desert simoom, if it had passed over it, could have effected it more thoroughly.

From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

I should think they must resemble the African simoom.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel

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 Taylor, Bayard

On another occasion we met the simoom, the purple haze in rushing past threatening suffocation.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir