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sirocco

[suh-rok-oh] / səˈrɒk oʊ /


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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

Like their master, the South Wind, they were conflicted—half hot, dry sirocco, half stormy thunderhead.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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

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

The summer house is a rude brush shelter, usually made with four corner posts, a flat top of brush, and a windbreak of the same material as a protection against the hot desert siroccos.

From The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis

What could his errand be, amid the typhoons and siroccos of that desolate continent?

From Boycotted And Other Stories by Talbot Baines Reed




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