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

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)

It was sad to see the wounded drag themselves back to the woods, to escape the storm, more terrible than the blast of the simoom, sweeping over the field.

From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton

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

It is like the simoom of the desert—producing a feeling of intense weariness.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard