Used with adjective complement

• become: Some of the showers may be heavy and around them the wind could become rather gusty.

Modifies a noun

• wind: In many areas there were gusty winds for much of the day.

• breeze: A gusty breeze ranging from force 4 to force 6 prevailed.

• condition: Saturday's races were held in a strong westerly breeze, which gave gusty conditions with plenty of shifts.

• weather: Cyclic loading during gusty weather leads to frequent axial load changes, a further stress factor for the bearing to deal with.

• day: Saturday, 14th May, was a gusty day.

• force: Cloud encroached again by 16 GMT with the wind freshening ( a gusty force 6 ) by evening.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: This leg proved quite hard work at times as we were flying into an increasingly gusty head wind.

• quite: Still quite gusty, no point in propping the thing up today.

• rather: Some of the showers may be heavy and around them the wind could become rather gusty.

• so: On our last day we had really strong winds ( June ) and it was so gusty we could not eat outside!

Preposition: in

• afternoon: Visibility moderate, wind West South West to South West 10 - 20 mph becoming 20 - 25 mph gusty in the afternoon.