windswept

British  

/ ˈwɪndˌswɛpt /

adjective

1. open to or swept by the wind

2. another word for windblown

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Example Sentences

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

Constable’s famously crusted, white-flecked surfaces, as seen in this painting’s coarsely textured beams and choppy canal water, and in its windswept, cloud-filled skies, became touchstones in his work.

From The Wall Street Journal

The peak came into sight; it formed the wide, blunt top of a ridge, huge and broad and windswept.

From Literature

With her windswept head stretched far out the car window, she seemed a canine Gen. Patton scanning the horizon in the race to Messina.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr Hoyles' windswept grove is one of the world's most northerly commercial olive farms.

From BBC

Related Words

• blustery
• boisterous
• brisk
• gusty
• stormy