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

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

It was in a gale of wind and a simoom of dust, but I greatly enjoyed it.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

The breath that from it issues Parches my palate; like the hot simoom, It scorches, though it sweep as stilly o'er Some blasted, bladeless desert!—

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John

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