How to Use windblown in a Sentence

windblown

adjective

• From the top of the rocks the steppe rolled to the horizon, a vast sheet striped with windblown snow.
  — Lucy Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2021
• The center of town is on the low ridges and hills of loess, windblown dirt and sand from the Delta.
  — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021
• Sugary, windblown snow in parts of the trail made the race slower, Diehl said.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2023
• The clear Delta River and the pipeline route over the Top of the World both have snow and decent ice, but are windblown and bumpy.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2018
• A windblown plastic bag or a bird resting briefly will not set off the alarm.
  — Chuck Squatriglia, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2011
• Sunburned eyes gaze over a scarf worn as a disguise or to keep out the windblown sand, or both.
  — Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2019
• Reyes struck out on a foul tip, cued a grounder to third base and reached in his final at-bat on a windblown pop-up.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 26 June 2016
• Skow said windblown snow tends to pile up in the area that buckled near the front of the building, citing a 5-foot drift near the flagpole.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• The angle of the camera is lower in the new version; her windblown locks darker and wilder.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• In healthy people, these cells, which are long and hairlike, sway freely like windblown grass.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 23 Oct. 2019
• Outside the window of my ice shanty, Steve and Rigby sat side by side in a haze of windblown snow.
  — Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2021
• Over time, windblown silt buried them deep, locking them in permafrost.
  — Katie Orlinsky, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• On each label is an image of a woman’s head with windblown hair.
  — Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• Their long hair would be windblown, doors would open for them, their family would love them more, men would smile at them.
  — Tasnim Ahmed, Allure, 27 Mar. 2018
• After many thousands of years, the soil has been altered by a mix of windblown sand and particles of seashells.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• More than 20 inches of snow had fallen in the Kenai area by Monday, with windblown drifts as well.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2022
• Chambers, a junior, helped his cause with an acrobatic catch of a windblown pop-up to save a run in the top of the seventh.
  — Randy Jennings, Dallas News, 8 May 2021
• Above this is a windblown layer of small bits of plaster, charcoal, and limestone spherules.
  — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• Win was lean and athletic, with high cheekbones and windblown hair.
  — Kate Daloz, The New Yorker, 14 May 2017
• Sheets of blinding, windblown rain curtain the view of Rosslyn from the Foggy Bottom area.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• In the Pleistocene dunes at Le Rozel, muddy sand would have held tracks well, and windblown sand would have quickly filled and covered them.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2019
• The ground is rubble, broken stone sprinkled with windblown snow.
  — Porter Fox, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
• Cal Fire officials organized lines at the edge of the valley floor as the blaze threatened to roar down through windblown canyons.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
• She was asked to toss the veil into the air, and then hurry out of the picture — an attempt to create a natural, windblown look.
  — Caroline Alkire, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2017
• Hazan climbed high on the windblown beach and held the female pup up, allowing its meek calls to project over the clamoring waves.
  — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Snow buntings like windblown hillsides and clear roadsides where there are grass seeds exposed.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Windblown grit carves exposed rocks on the valley rim into curved and hollowed forms.
  — Photographs and Text By Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• Squirrels chittered at us loudly from the windblown trees.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
• By trapping windblown sand, the seaweed can help fortify and grow sand dunes.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• And this year, the first half of April was exceptionally warm and dry, perfect for windblown pollination.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024