windswept

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Nonetheless, the organization’s 80 acres are home to a variety of artist residencies, which use the windswept isolation of the desert to activate dormant ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

The event has been held at the picturesque and often windswept waterfront circuit some two hours outside of Melbourne since 1997, but its contract expires this year.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Its single “Chains of Love” is a hybrid of new and old, with orchestral flourishes bouncing off the singer’s voice, which is processed to sound pinched and distant—as if echoing across a windswept moor, perhaps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

“The freshness of an orchard? The warmth of a blooming flower garden? The windswept allure of the coastline?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

A few had even been known to say it was no barrow; just a hill, but if so it was a lonely hill, for most of the barrowlands were flat and windswept.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin