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 • 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

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

She was marvellous and monstrous, sirocco and mistral, fragile and brutish, inspired and vacant.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2014

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