Examples of windswept in a Sentence
The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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Getting away from daily life, and then replacing it with mountains and windswept bluffs, seemed promising.
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Chris Colin, AFAR Media, 31 Jan. 2025
The site looked like the rest of the ice sheet—flat, white, windswept.
—Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
On a windswept waterfront lot in West Palm Beach last April, billionaire real estate developer Stephen Ross stood behind a lectern to tout his company’s new South Flagler House, a high-end, luxury condominium project with 108 units housed in two 28-story towers.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2025
Listen to this article Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora will not process and house detained immigrants after all, U.S. Rep. Jason Crow told reporters Monday during a news conference outside the sprawling, windswept facility.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025
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Chris Colin, AFAR Media, 31 Jan. 2025
The site looked like the rest of the ice sheet—flat, white, windswept.
—Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
On a windswept waterfront lot in West Palm Beach last April, billionaire real estate developer Stephen Ross stood behind a lectern to tout his company’s new South Flagler House, a high-end, luxury condominium project with 108 units housed in two 28-story towers.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2025
Listen to this article Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora will not process and house detained immigrants after all, U.S. Rep. Jason Crow told reporters Monday during a news conference outside the sprawling, windswept facility.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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