WINDSWEPT


Meaning of WINDSWEPT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

windswept especially literary (= blown around by the wind )

Her hair was all windswept when they came off the beach.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the windswept Montana plains

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A story of indiscretion and retribution set in windswept Cornwall.

Light a candle there on a windswept night, and you might just catch a glimpse of him.

Strange, windswept cliffs of sandstone break through rolling hills of soft, powdery soil.

These tall, uniform boxes are set back from the street, isolated by windswept plazas.

What my traveling companion remembered from the mid 1970s as a lonely, windswept point has become a bustling little town.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.