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

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

It is like the simoom of the desert—producing a feeling of intense weariness.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

And on the desert in the hot simoom Writ fervent words to warn you of your way.

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

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