wind-swept
open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.
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How to use wind-swept in a sentence
Imagine, then, standing on this wind-swept height as Rimbaud did, almost out of your mind with the sheer power of your mind.
As fast as the smoke rose the wind swept it away, so that the gunners had a clear view of the ships.
Stories of Our Naval Heroes | VariousThere was no wood; he tore the clapboards from a near-by cabin and the tar paper from the wind-swept roof.
The White Desert | Courtney Ryley CooperHarder and swifter the wind swept about them; its force greater than the slight form of the woman could resist.
The White Desert | Courtney Ryley CooperInstantly the wind swept howling down upon the Head, and the Roost bellowed, and churned, and danced with a new fury.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI | Robert Louis Stevenson
So he dressed quickly and hurried through the wind-swept corridor into the Chapel.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie
British Dictionary definitions for windswept
/ (ˈwɪndˌswɛpt) /
open to or swept by the wind
another word for windblown (def. 2)
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