Examples of windswept in a Sentence
The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026 The monumental cast-in-place concrete central core, dubbed the Great Court, was a bleak windswept post-apocalyptic landscape most of the year. —Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026 And Hammond is roughly the same distance from downtown Chicago as Arlington Heights; whichever direction the team moves, leaving windswept Soldier Field for the artificial environment of a dome means abandoning some of the proud misery that defines Bears football. —Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026 And as any major dude will tell you, dads love a certain windswept genre of music and can list off the full credits for every member of Toto. —Devon Ivie, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for windswept
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Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026 The monumental cast-in-place concrete central core, dubbed the Great Court, was a bleak windswept post-apocalyptic landscape most of the year. —Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026 And Hammond is roughly the same distance from downtown Chicago as Arlington Heights; whichever direction the team moves, leaving windswept Soldier Field for the artificial environment of a dome means abandoning some of the proud misery that defines Bears football. —Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026 And as any major dude will tell you, dads love a certain windswept genre of music and can list off the full credits for every member of Toto. —Devon Ivie, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for windswept
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept -ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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