wind-swept
open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.
Origin of wind-swept
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How to use wind-swept in a sentence
This windswept sheep-filled archipelago off the coast of Southern Patagonia remains an Argentine obsession.
The Never-Ending Falklands War: In Buenos Aires, A Museum's Selective History | Michael Luongo | August 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMichael (not his real name), was tall and slender; his windswept, dirty blond hair done up in a Flock of Seagulls–style do.
‘I Am Sorry’— Alan Chambers’s Apology and the End of Exodus International | James Kirchick | June 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFresh-faced and slightly windswept, she looks more like an ad for Oil of Olay than the embarrassed wife of a wayward governor.
And so, to survive, she started showing up at the Amarillo Resource Center food bank, in the windswept Texas Panhandle.
Then Tchekoff takes us to a postal station to show us another type of the "Windswept Grain."
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge Persky
"The Windswept Grain" shows the reader a religious establishment, where a young Jew, recently converted, has taken refuge.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyThe high school occupies a treeless, grassless, windswept block by itself.
What eight million women want | Rheta Childe DorrTo the north the great, flat, windswept Dasht-i-Margo, about as desolate and arid a region as fancy could depict.
The Gates of India | Thomas HoldichAt last his newly returned strength failing him, he threw himself down in the dry windswept heather.
Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) | Mary Cholmondeley
British Dictionary definitions for windswept
/ (ˈwɪndˌswɛpt) /
open to or swept by the wind
another word for windblown (def. 2)
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