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 ā Mar. 20, 2014
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
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 A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
It is like the simoom of the desert—producing a feeling of intense weariness.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
The simoom is unmistakably a wind, and surely no one who has not had the experience can appreciate it.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
