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

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)

It was sad to see the wounded drag themselves back to the woods, to escape the storm, more terrible than the blast of the simoom, sweeping over the field.

From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton

The phenomenon that had broken over the arenaceous couch,—upon which slept the four castaways,—was neither more nor less than a "sand-storm;" or, to give it its Arab title, a simoom.

From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne