Wind-swept Sentence Examples

He withdrew, and the cold wind swept over her.

The fields flatten out, punctuated by wind-swept pines.

Cold wind swept through the room.

Instead of wide, barren, wind-swept valleys, here are found fertile alluvial plains - such as Manipur - but for the most part the erosive action of the river has been able to keep pace with the rise of the river bed, and we have deep, steep-sided valleys eating their way northwards owing to the greater rainfall on the southern than on the northern slopes.

They Transported to the mountainside again, and the cold wind swept past him.

Pierre was beyond handsome with his brooding looks, wind-swept blond hair, black clothing, and trench coat.

It runs a remarkably straight course westward through a narrow trough from Daolatyar to Obeh, amidst the bleak wind-swept uplands of the highest central elevations in Afghanistan.

The climate, therefore, in parts is exceedingly cold and bleak in winter, and as it is very wind-swept and parched in summer by the terrible qibli or "sirocco" it is much less attractive in appearance than the favoured region on the northern littoral.

The northern portion of Tibet is an arid and wind-swept desert; but in the southern portion the valleys of Lhasa, Shigatse, Gyantse and the Brahmaputra are covered with good soil and groves of trees, well irrigated, and richly cultivated.

Above these are cool, temperate slopes and valleys, and high above these, bleak, wind-swept passes and snowclad peaks.

There are ampler expanses of hard saliferous clay (shor) and on the north side of the desert of Lop the surface has been carved and sculptured by the wind into innumerable flat, tabletopped masses (jardangs) with vertical or even overhanging sides, separated from one another by deep-cut, wind-swept gullies, running from north-east to south-west.

Periche is a ' one horse ' town, little more than a few shacks on a wind swept plain between 5000 meter mountains.

An exceptional specimen or an uncommon variety may sometimes be seen in the above-mentioned abnormal places, but the best, the true, and common variety of the table is the produce of short, upland, wind-swept pastures.

The excellent Visitor Center explains how the monks used to live on this wind-swept island.

Here, precariously hugging wind-swept cliffs are literally hundreds of castle ruins, connected in many cases to the warrior clans Sinclair and Gunn.

This wild, wind-swept area was common land on which local people could graze their animals.

What impact have the murders had on that tiny town on the wind-swept plains?