sirocco
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As locals will tell you, nature is in charge here, and when a sirocco hits, you have to go with the flow.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
On this occasion, though, we are all so in the thrall of Driver, who breezes in and out of “Burn This” like a sirocco, that we believe in his ability to turn Anna’s head.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2019
Gwyneth appears to be wearing a sirocco of flower petals.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2017
In the summer, the squares are picked clean by le sirocco, a wind that originates in the Sahara and covers the rooftops in fine red sand.
From Salon ● May 15, 2016
In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
In the glass-topped Grand Palais, which looked and felt like a hothouse, electric fans set small siroccos swirling over the delegates' heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
What could his errand be, amid the typhoons and siroccos of that desolate continent?
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Talbot Baines Reed
Chiefs blinded by your rage! each bleachèd sapless bone Becomes a pipe Through which siroccos whistle, trodden 'mong the stone By quail and snipe.
From Poems by Victor Hugo
I must remark, also, that the house was well warmed and ventilated, without the aid of alternating siroccos and north winds.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Of the atmosphere the gardener has almost absolute control—no siroccos, biting frost, or destructive winds interfere.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
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