[
UK
/ɡˈʌsti/
]
[ US /ˈɡəsti/ ]
[ US /ˈɡəsti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts
puffy off-shore winds
gusty winds
How To Use gusty In A Sentence
- Gusty winds can pick you up or drop you down, so stay a little high, knowing slips or flaps can get you down more safely.
- The heavy downpours, which began around 4 am yesterday, were accompanied by gusty winds, thunder and lightning.
- Pennants snapped in the gusty wind, and the banners above her keep rippled in answer.
- Late on the morning of 8 February 1983 a strong, but dry, cold front began crossing Victoria, preceded by hot, gusty northerly winds.
- Strong gusty winds made for exciting racing in the third race of the Killington Sailing Association's winter series.
- Accuracy testing was complicated by the heavy trigger pull, substantial recoil and a strong, gusty wind blowing from right to left.
- Behind the cross, crude propeller blades on whirligigs made by local artist R A Miller and planted on Windy Hill, spin and twirl on gusty days.
- Weather forecasts predict more hot weather, gusty winds and lightning strikes.
- We stalked ridges in gusty snowstorms, slogged down trails thick with fresh prints, and inched our way along some very promising fingers (hillsides with fingerlike spurs). Using Stealth to Hunt Trophy Whitetail Bucks
- The Namibian coast experienced abnormally cold weather conditions the past three months with strong winds, gusty seas and out of season thunderstorms over the central and southern coast.