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 Caroline C. Leighton
The phenomenon that had broken over the arenaceous couch, upon which slept the four castaways, was neither more nor less than a “sandstorm”; or, to give it its Arab title, a simoom.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
It was an His simple manners. exceedingly hot day and the simoom was blowing fiercely.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
It was an ostrich, fleeing in mortal terror before the simoom.
From The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn
