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windswept

/ ˈwɪndˌswɛpt /

adjective

This windswept sheep-filled archipelago off the coast of Southern Patagonia remains an Argentine obsession.

Michael (not his real name), was tall and slender; his windswept, dirty blond hair done up in a Flock of Seagulls–style do.

Fresh-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."

"The Windswept Grain" shows the reader a religious establishment, where a young Jew, recently converted, has taken refuge.

The high school occupies a treeless, grassless, windswept block by itself.

To the north the great, flat, windswept Dasht-i-Margo, about as desolate and arid a region as fancy could depict.

At last his newly returned strength failing him, he threw himself down in the dry windswept heather.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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