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

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)

No desert simoom, if it had passed over it, could have effected it more thoroughly.

From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

He's the oasis in the desert of my life; but the counting-room simoom comes along and dries him up, every now and then.

From The Quality of Mercy by Howells, William Dean

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