windblown

Example Sentences

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Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading fires that were ignited by windblown embers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

Officials are warning of windblown ash and other pollutants from Los Angeles-area fires and say air quality readers won’t pick up on the ash pollutants.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

Matthew Cuba, the squadron’s cultural resource manager, said the formation of white sand dunes inadvertently buried the site with windblown silt protecting the archaeological remains.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2024

Battered by strengthening winds, with the course increasingly covered in windblown snow, many had barely made it halfway round.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

Some of the fences were missing, and the Herding Machine was broken, but the cows promised not to wander off, and they began grazing on the windblown grass.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown