Wind-swept meaning

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The definition of wind-swept is open to or affected by strong currents of air.

An example of wind-swept used as an adjective is the phrase wind swept hair which means hair that has been blown around by a breeze while driving.

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Swept by or exposed to winds.
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Exposed to the winds.

We struggled over the windswept moorland.

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Alternative form of windswept.
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Wind-swept Sentence Examples

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

  • He withdrew, and the cold wind swept over her.

  • Cold wind swept through the room.

  • Instead of wide, barren, wind-swept valleys, here are found fertile alluvial plains - such as Manipur - but for the most part the erosive action of the river has been able to keep pace with the rise of the river bed, and we have deep, steep-sided valleys eating their way northwards owing to the greater rainfall on the southern than on the northern slopes.

  • They Transported to the mountainside again, and the cold wind swept past him.

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