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

This great domain of the simoom has every diversity of surface.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

In the choking breath of the simoom he feels the potentialities of God, and his own helpless impotence.

From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Leonard, Arthur Glyn

Ask the simoom that sweeps like a cruel furnace blast over this forsaken region.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

But I'd as lief encounter a West India hurricane or a simoom.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various