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
No desert simoom, if it had passed over it, could have effected it more thoroughly.
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
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 Charles Carleton Coffin
There is nothing to be heard but the sharp whistle of the dry snow—the same dreary music which accompanies the African simoom.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor
In the choking breath of the simoom he feels the potentialities of God, and his own helpless impotence.
From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Arthur Glyn Leonard
