Definitions
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- noun A hot, dry
wind that blows across thePersian Gulf during the summer
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the spring and summer the northern sky would suddenly turn dark brown, or burnt orange, signaling the onslaught of a shamal, a fierce sandstorm that blew in hot northwesterly winds with stinging sand for two or three days at a time.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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In the spring and summer the northern sky would suddenly turn dark brown, or burnt orange, signaling the onslaught of a shamal, a fierce sandstorm that blew in hot northwesterly winds with stinging sand for two or three days at a time.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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The shamal blew when Bassam and his friend were about halfway to Baghdad.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Sandstorms are common in Iraq in the spring, when the northwesterly shamal wind, funneled into the Mesopotamian plateau by the mountains of Turkey, drags through Iraq and Kuwait enormous quantities of sand it picks up in Syria and Lebanon.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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By then, the shamal had moved on, taking its veil of dust to Kuwait.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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By then, the shamal had moved on, taking its veil of dust to Kuwait.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Sandstorms are common in Iraq in the spring, when the northwesterly shamal wind, funneled into the Mesopotamian plateau by the mountains of Turkey, drags through Iraq and Kuwait enormous quantities of sand it picks up in Syria and Lebanon.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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The shamal blew when Bassam and his friend were about halfway to Baghdad.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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The shamal comes in quickly and silently, like an ocher paint roller, and can blow for several days straight, subsiding slightly at night when the air is cooler.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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The shamal comes in quickly and silently, like an ocher paint roller, and can blow for several days straight, subsiding slightly at night when the air is cooler.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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