windswept

Example Sentences

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The route for the remaining mushers will take them over two mountain ranges, the frozen Yukon River, along Alaska’s windswept western coast and onto the treacherous Bering Sea ice to the finish line in Nome.

From Seattle Times

A windswept blue beard is clamped against his face, his muscled, purplish torso streaked with brush marks.

From Los Angeles Times

But developers have rapidly scaled up their investments in solar and geothermal in the windswept lands north of Las Vegas, where sunshine and open land are abundant.

From Seattle Times

Almost 200 years ago, Henry David Thoreau took a series of trips from his home, about 20 miles west of Boston, to the windswept landscapes of Cape Cod.

From Salon

Its windswept look is due to its outer arms being stripped away by an interaction with another galaxy.

From BBC