Modifies a noun

• island: The excellent Visitor Center explains how the monks used to live on this wind-swept island.

• cliff: Here, precariously hugging wind-swept cliffs are literally hundreds of castle ruins, connected in many cases to the warrior clans Sinclair and Gunn.

• plain: What impact have the murders had on that tiny town on the wind-swept plains?

• beach: Find nature in its purest form along the wind-swept beaches and marshes.

• pine: The fields flatten out, punctuated by wind-swept pines.

• area: This wild, wind-swept area was common land on which local people could graze their animals.