khamsin
Example Sentences
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Moving up out of the desert each spring and fall, the khamsin is an ill wind that blows no one in the Middle East any good.
From Time Magazine Archive
Judges in some Arab countries take a lenient attitude toward crimes committed during the khamsin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Additional tests have shown that their conditions are aggravated, not directly caused by the khamsin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, as Jerusalem suffered under the worst khamsin since 1893, tempers and guns blazed along Israel's borders.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was, unfortunately, exposed to the north-west winds, burning winds like the mistral of Italy and Provence, the khamsin of Egypt, etc.
From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott
