wind-swept
[wind-swept]
- open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.
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Origin of wind-swept
First recorded in 1805–15
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Examples from the Web for windswept
Contemporary Examples
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 HistoryMichael Luongo
August 30, 2014
Michael (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 InternationalJames Kirchick
June 24, 2013
And so, to survive, she started showing up at the Amarillo Resource Center food bank, in the windswept Texas Panhandle.
Historical Examples
It was raining, the long stretches of salt marsh were windswept and brown and bleak.
The PortygeeJoseph Crosby Lincoln
He passed through the airlock and out into the windswept desert.
Starman's QuestRobert Silverberg
But no cloud ever managed to look so rocky, so windswept, or so welcome.
Valley of the CroenLee Tarbell
Some in Turkish waters, others by the windswept heights of Norway and the Dane!
VeraOscar Wilde
Who then are these people, and how do they live upon so small and windswept an island?
Sir NigelArthur Conan Doyle
windswept
- open to or swept by the wind
- another word for windblown (def. 2)
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Word Origin and History for windswept
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