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
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
She was marvellous and monstrous, sirocco and mistral, fragile and brutish, inspired and vacant.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2014
The agents were forced to retreat, chased by the sirocco.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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
Fatal and beautiful colors lurked in the swamps, and in the sifting dust, fine and hard, blown by siroccos across the glare of noon, like sands on the shores of the Lake of Fire.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
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
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
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
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