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

But I'd as lief encounter a West India hurricane or a simoom.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

It was in a gale of wind and a simoom of dust, but I greatly enjoyed it.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

He had not lived long enough under the hot breath of the simoom to have all the early associations withered and crisped.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

Ask the simoom that sweeps like a cruel furnace blast over this forsaken region.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello