How to Use windswept in a Sentence

windswept

adjective
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  • The sailors looked windswept and tired.
  • The plains are windswept and frozen, but Alvarez wasn’t cold.
    — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • The rolling landscape means that some parts of the 35-acre grounds sit in windswept hollows.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
  • Above ground, Maeve's party walks through windswept hills, with snow on the ground.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2018
  • The mission plays out not at the embassy, as hoped, but on the sandy, windswept soil of a dry lake in Iran.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The main house, a long, low-slung black fortress clad in wood and glass, hunkers down on a windswept plateau.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Leave the top relaxed and undone with a few wispy pieces for a more windswept feel.
    — Jennifer Tzeses, Woman's Day, 19 Aug. 2013
  • The mines outside of town set the pace, explosives blasting the windswept ground to free the coal.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Windows look like clouds or windswept pine and spruce trees.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • On the rocky, windswept coast of Iceland, the puffins are returning.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2017
  • His house, like most in the district of steep, windswept hills, was too open to the elements.
    — Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Dark irises grow amid bright blooms on windswept hills.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Soft and slightly wavy, this bob with windswept bangs has a retro and graceful look.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Thomas shook his head as the windswept sediment forms tiny dunes.
    — Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Most have been barred from traveling to the windswept coasts of Normandy.
    — Time, 6 June 2020
  • The Delta River has plenty of windswept areas this spring in spite of heavy snows.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Scenic pullouts line the road, which tops out amid windswept alpine tundra.
    — Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Nevada may be big and windswept, but don’t call it empty.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 8 Sep. 2020
  • A decade ago, thugs from the Zetas cartel had brought their victims to this windswept patch of turf.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The result is a great diversity out in the windswept desert.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Posed with a windswept bob, this photo lives rent-free in many black women’s minds.
    — Jailynn Taylor, Essence, 23 Oct. 2022
  • To finish off the look, hairstylist Gary Gill gave most of the models a windswept side part.
    — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The Ryder Cup on this windswept course is rounding into a blowout.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Frances Arnold With windswept hair and a crisp white blouse, Frances Arnold exudes regal poise.
    — Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Gomez wasn't the only Hollywood star who had a windswept moment at the Globes.
    — Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • And adding volume to the mix, Fashion East served up tidal waves of windswept texture, frozen in place with heavy gel, of course.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Ann sat on a rock that looked out at the ocean, even though the rock was windswept and must have been very cold, while Christopher ran back and forth on the beach with the kids.
    — Elizabeth Strout, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
  • The windswept heights of Dead Mountain have become a site of pilgrimage.
    — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • And if ever there was a sign that Morgan was ready to move on from the sport that had long defined her life, that conversation on a windswept bluff overlooking the 5 Freeway was it.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The ceremony began at 5:30 p.m. on the windswept waterfront at Hotel Cala di Volpe.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024

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