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

We are told that on the 17th of June, 1859, there was much more of a genuine simoom.

From Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California by Leighton, Caroline C.

Zarah was the one flower left in the desert over which the simoom had swept; her smile was to the bereaved mother as the bright smile of hope.

From Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History by A. L. O. E.

It was sad to see the wounded drag themselves back to the woods, to escape the storm, more terrible than the blast of the simoom, sweeping over the field.

From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton

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 Leonard, Arthur Glyn