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- adjective Alternative form of
windswept .
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Examples
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Building a new transmission grid to move electricity from the sunny desert and wind-swept Great Plains to coastal cities will likely prove contentious and expensive.
Wind, Sun Power Still Face Hurdles Russell Gold 2011
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Mr. Righetti, who pitched mostly for the New York Yankees but spent three seasons with the Giants in the National League, said he isn't as worried about the cold, even in his team's often wind-swept stadium, as he is about an injury on a slide or a collision.
You'd Be Cooler Without the Jacket Matthew Futterman 2010
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Development of the Hudson Yards area—a wind-swept district of warehouses, rail yards and parking lots south of the Jacob K.
Hudson Yards Lures Its First Tenant Eliot Brown 2011
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A "kite back top," in magnolia and faded orange, seemed to flutter back onto the neck of the model wearing it as she walked, giving the garment a wind-swept effect.
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But its defense of the Super Bowl title ended at a wind-swept Shea Stadium against Len Dawson and the Kansas City Chiefs.
For Once, Home Field Has Its Advantages for the Jets Michael Salfino 2011
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Throgs Neck, a wind-swept peninsula in the southeast Bronx, is an unlikely place for a celebrity Cuban chef to embark on his newest venture.
Latin Food Enlivens Throgs Neck Laura Kusisto 2012
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All of this does not deter the hardy, vivacious souls of this wind-swept coast from remembering the good life and having some fun.
Rocky Kistner: Gulf Women Show Their Panties and Fight for Their Future Rocky Kistner 2011
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I moved through wind-swept groves of limber backs,; across sunny glades, lighted by the beaming rays from a thousand obsequious eyes; and when I tired of this, basked on the greensward of popular approval.
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But for those braving the wind-swept seas on a Delos-bound ferry from Mykonos last week, there was no escaping the realisation that that crisis has also reached these hallowed parts.
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His unsettling landscapes move beyond Claude's pastoral harmonies, replacing them with dangerous, wind-swept, "sublime" ravines and crags, gloom and doom.
Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011
victoriapl commented on the word wind-swept
"I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew—"
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
July 4, 2008
skipvia commented on the word wind-swept
When I was growing up in NC, a short film of military jet flights with this poem as a voice-over was used by a local TV network to sign off each Saturday night, right after Shock Theater with Dr. Paul Bearer.
July 4, 2008