simoom

Example Sentences

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Through simooms of expensive publicity, she occupies the place of Marilyn Monroe and all the Lana Turners, Jean Harlows, and Theda Baras before her.

From Time Magazine Archive

The summer passed away, with its intense heat and its fierce simooms.

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

The African coast lay stretched out in ivory nakedness, clean, bare, swept and garnished by simooms, by cruel heat, by the beatings of surf eternal.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan

It is thought that the army was overwhelmed and buried by one of those fatal storms, called simooms, that so frequently sweep over those dreary wastes of sand.

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness

They had felt the hyperborean blasts of the countries beyond the Black Sea, the simooms and sand-tempests of the Egyptian deserts.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William