WordNet
n. a very strong wind; "rain and high winds covered the region"
Usage examples of "high wind".
The words roared in her ears like the howl of a high wind, blotting out every other sound and leaving her wrapped in confusion and disbelief.
The expanding ring of light swept across the grass like a high wind, pounding the stalks flat, and the night rocked to a thunderous concussion as Jerghar's bolt of flame struck Tomanâ.
The experts claimed that the hysteria generated by the Santa Ana was caused by the static and the positively charged ions caused by the constant high wind.
A high wind was whipping the waters of a narrow channel into a turmoil of grey-green waves and flying spume.
In Moose County nothing ever changed unless it blew away in a high wind.
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Immediately afterward he was struck by a high wind, with gusts of at least a hundred kilometers an hour, and then a hundred and fifty.