sirocco

Example Sentences

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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

Like their master, the South Wind, they were conflicted—half hot, dry sirocco, half stormy thunderhead.

From Literature

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 Literature

Franco looks way too young compared with Kidman, for one thing, and his British accent comes and goes, like the sirocco.

From Washington Post

Pantelleria is battered by two Mediterranean winds, the mistral and the sirocco.

From The New Yorker