windblown

Example Sentences

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Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading fires that were ignited by windblown embers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

And if you were on the grounds, you could feel all of that windblown dust sticking to you.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2024

Matthew Cuba, the squadron’s cultural resource manager, said the formation of white sand dunes inadvertently buried the site with windblown silt protecting the archaeological remains.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2024

Battered by strengthening winds, with the course increasingly covered in windblown snow, many had barely made it halfway round.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

Subsequent observations by the Viking lander support the identification of windblown clays on Mars.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan