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
He had not lived long enough under the hot breath of the simoom to have all the early associations withered and crisped.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
I should think they must resemble the African simoom.
From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles
On another occasion we met the simoom, the purple haze in rushing past threatening suffocation.
From The World's Greatest Books ā Volume 19 ā Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
The monsoon and simoom, In the soft empurpled Orient, At mention of thy name Doff all the hats of Heathendom!
From Cobwebs from a Library Corner by John Kendrick Bangs
