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sandstorm
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sandstorm may refer to: Dust storm , a storm caused by strong wind and sand or dust
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library. ▪ A venture on to the beach entailed braving a sandstorm which continued unabated over night, partially burying our boats! ▪ In a while, tiny figures lay slanted against the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand; "it was the kind of duster not experienced in years" [syn: dust storm , duster , sirocco ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air. n. A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
Usage examples of sandstorm.
He could tell a great many truths about learning to hunt with Avatre, the things he had taught her, about sandstorms they had been forced to fly above, about finding tiny wilderness water sources not even the Bedu had known were there.
Marcus that she had learned nothing beyond local legends of monsters, sandstorms, and lost caverns filled with eyeless snakes.
But although she spoke to the old man for another hour at least, in the end she admitted to Marcus that she had learned nothing beyond local legends of monsters, sandstorms, and lost caverns filled with eyeless snakes.
These sandstorms contain tiny razors, that slice through your nerve endings like hot blades through butter.
All her stiffed emotions throbbed inside her chest as they had in the sandstorm.
Feylin hadn't allowed him up yesterday, not bothering to argue that after the exertions of battle, sandstorms, and the trek across the Desert, he had to have rest.
A sandstorm buries the oasis where the desert people have camped, trees flattened under the blast of the wind.
Oh, these were carved rather than inscribed, and time and sandstorms had worn them down to mere suggestions.
The cool desert air seemed to carry in it the residue of a sandstorm, a desiccating haze that parched the throat.
Once, scrub trees and creosote bushes had clung to the clay soil, but sandstorms from the north had buried them.
Or the terrible sandstorms thought by some scientists to have occurred during the Cretaceous Period in what today is Mongolia, burying dinosaurs where they crouched, turned away from the terrible wind.
She lifted her face from the pillow, ugly, swollen, cut up with the violence of the sandstorm and crumply with tears.
And he must start at once, before the sandstorm, whose approach bit and whispered at his nerves, gave them its electric strength.
Leto saw a small sandstorm, a ghibli, moving across the southern horizon.
I can't hold Cyrenaica, so with the remains of the Afrika Korps, under General Bayerlein, I shall cross southern Cyrenaica, despite the rains and the sandstorms, in order to set up a first line of defense at Mersa el Brega (just short of Tripolitania).