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sirocco

[suh-rok-oh] / səˈrɒk oʊ /


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As locals will tell you, nature is in charge here, and when a sirocco hits, you have to go with the flow.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2024

On this occasion, though, we are all so in the thrall of Driver, who breezes in and out of “Burn This” like a sirocco, that we believe in his ability to turn Anna’s head.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2019

Gwyneth appears to be wearing a sirocco of flower petals.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2017

In the summer, the squares are picked clean by le sirocco, a wind that originates in the Sahara and covers the rooftops in fine red sand.

From Salon ● May 15, 2016

In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

In the glass-topped Grand Palais, which looked and felt like a hothouse, electric fans set small siroccos swirling over the delegates' heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it is not only the siroccos that help forward His purpose for us!

From Parables of the Christ-life by I. Lilias Trotter

I must remark, also, that the house was well warmed and ventilated, without the aid of alternating siroccos and north winds.

From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Fatal and beautiful colors lurked in the swamps, and in the sifting dust, fine and hard, blown by siroccos across the glare of noon, like sands on the shores of the Lake of Fire.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various

Chiefs blinded by your rage! each bleachèd sapless bone           Becomes a pipe Through which siroccos whistle, trodden 'mong the stone           By quail and snipe.

From Poems by Victor Hugo




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