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 phenomenon that had broken over the arenaceous couch, upon which slept the four castaways, was neither more nor less than a “sandstorm”; or, to give it its Arab title, a simoom.

From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne

Waddles is a human simoom, carrying dust, sand and cactus.

From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van

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.

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

From The Scarlet Banner by Dahn, Felix