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
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.
On another occasion we met the simoom, the purple haze in rushing past threatening suffocation.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Despair not in calamities of a gladdening that shall wipe away thy sorrows; For how many a simoom blows, then turns to a gentle breeze, and is changed!
From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies
Among these winds are the simoom and sirocco.
From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson
