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

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

It was late in the afternoon when we reached the spot again, and a wind which threatened simoom had covered the heart-shaped footmarks made by our own and other camels, as with a tidal wave.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

We came, as the simoom creeps over the plain; We came, as the tiger its covert forsakes; As the hurricane brushes the dust from the brakes; As the lightning leaps out and the thunder-god shakes.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt

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