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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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The ideal trip here marries the best of both small-town charm and windswept coastal beauty — here's how to do it.
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Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Here, the cringey sizing up begins: Jo, effortlessly cool, like Lara Croft in a tank top with windswept hair, talks shop about tornadoes and jumps off the back of a pickup truck with ease.
—Katla McGlynn, Vulture, 17 July 2024
Off the windswept western coast of France, around two and a half hours by car north of Bordeaux, the Île de Ré is often invoked as Europe’s answer to Martha’s Vineyard: outdoorsy, a little la-di-dah, and a watering hole for city-dwellers on holiday, particularly during the summer.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
Add Florida’s panhandle to the growing list of sites for Dream Golf destination properties, joining the windswept dunes of eastern Colorado and a secluded sandy stretch of land in East Texas.
—Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Here, the cringey sizing up begins: Jo, effortlessly cool, like Lara Croft in a tank top with windswept hair, talks shop about tornadoes and jumps off the back of a pickup truck with ease.
—Katla McGlynn, Vulture, 17 July 2024
Off the windswept western coast of France, around two and a half hours by car north of Bordeaux, the Île de Ré is often invoked as Europe’s answer to Martha’s Vineyard: outdoorsy, a little la-di-dah, and a watering hole for city-dwellers on holiday, particularly during the summer.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
Add Florida’s panhandle to the growing list of sites for Dream Golf destination properties, joining the windswept dunes of eastern Colorado and a secluded sandy stretch of land in East Texas.
—Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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