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windstorm

/wind-stawrm/US // ˈwɪndˌstɔrm //UK // (ˈwɪndˌstɔːm) //

风暴,暴风雪,风灾,暴风

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a storm with heavy wind but little or no precipitation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The pioneer climbed up a lanky Douglas spruce in the middle of a windstorm one December day in 1874 to feel what treetops feel.

  • That being said, the sound is big enough that sometimes a big local windstorm can churn out some choppy waves.

  • These days it’ll be 120 in September and 95 in January, and we’ll see windstorms and wildfires.

  • Five days before we planned to head home, a windstorm knocked out the power.

  • Sinai Field Mission: A man with a large push-broom is sweeping sand off a road in a windstorm.

  • Since it was only a windstorm, there was no rain to wash the air clean of the lethal dust.

  • Shortly after our return to the farm the wind began again to rise, and another terrific windstorm blew over the land.

  • A more terrific windstorm than all those I had seen before, arose during the night.

  • I wished it had been forty or forty-five, for instead of a windstorm we should then have had glorious still weather.

  • What will become of me in this terrific windstorm, in the midst of these great towering mountains that surround me on every side?