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Examples

  • Their canvas tents will never cope with the shamals blowing in from our north, he says.

    the winds eamon byrne 2011

  • It was a short hiatus from the shamals that plagued Bagram during the summer.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

  • The enemy vanished as quickly as they appeared—an apparition that transformed itself like the Afghanistan shamals, appearing out of nowhere, wreaking havoc, and then disappearing without a trace.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

  • When the shamals came, a wall of brown dust several miles wide and a thousand feet high engulfed Bagram, blocking out sunlight and turning bright afternoons into eerie evening scenes.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

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