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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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The service took place at Sandringham, the estate on the windswept North Sea coast that has been a retreat for the royals for generations.
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Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
Wild poinsettias still grow along the windswept Pacific coastal cliffs of southern Mexico and northern Guatemala.
—Norman Ellstrand and Nathan Ellstrand / Made By History, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
Feel the breeze in your hair by renting a Jeep and venturing on dirt roads across windswept rocky terrain, discovering petroglyphs and desolate beaches along the way.
—Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
This is the perfect place to take in this windswept side of the island, much less frequently visited than the beachy Caribbean coastline — but no less beautiful.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
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Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
Wild poinsettias still grow along the windswept Pacific coastal cliffs of southern Mexico and northern Guatemala.
—Norman Ellstrand and Nathan Ellstrand / Made By History, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
Feel the breeze in your hair by renting a Jeep and venturing on dirt roads across windswept rocky terrain, discovering petroglyphs and desolate beaches along the way.
—Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
This is the perfect place to take in this windswept side of the island, much less frequently visited than the beachy Caribbean coastline — but no less beautiful.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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