simoom
Example Sentences
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If you happen to be in Africa and stuck in a “hot, dry, suffocating sand-wind” which sweeps across the deserts at intervals during the spring, you should know that you are in a simoom.
From Time • Mar. 20, 2014
This great domain of the simoom has every diversity of surface.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello
Quickly it resumes its course as if urged by a mysterious force, and soon the terrible simoom overwhelms and destroys it.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
It was an His simple manners. exceedingly hot day and the simoom was blowing fiercely.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
Despite the arguments of the landlord and my own man that it was dangerous to set out in the face of a simoom, we started, taking the route towards Hathor Set.
From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
