How To Use Sandstorm In A Sentence
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For every seasonal seismic observer one unforgettable memory is that of his first desert sandstorm.
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Fast, wind-blown sand produced in sandstorms can be extremely painful on bare skin, which is one reason why airmen must be fully clothed at all times.
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Strong winds blow a sandstorm through the camp when suddenly the sound of large artillery rounds is heard about 300 meters away.
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Knowing we were near the field, they urged us to return as expediently possible, since a strong sandstorm was approaching.
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Heading for the desert he attempts the Marathon des Sables, an exhausting and dangerous seven-day test of ability, to see what effect dry heat has on the weather, from mirages to the deadly desert sandstorm that is the haboob.
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Description: SG-1 is called to Abydos to investigate a strange phenomenon: a whirling sandstorm that seems to whisper Dr. Daniel Jackson's name.
September 2009
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The most likely date was thought to be next Tuesday or Wednesday when the phases of the moon would help the airforce and soldiers carry out their attacks and the worst of the sandstorms - the desert storms - were over.
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The men lost their way in a sandstorm and crossed the border by mistake.
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Egypt: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides, volcanic activity; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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It is susceptible to hot, dry, dust-laden southern wind called the sirocco or "ghibli" which lasts one to four days in spring and fall; and, from dust storms and sandstorms.
Libya
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His plane made a crash-landing during a sandstorm yesterday.
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Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
Egypt
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During sandstorms, sand is sucked into engines, where it wreaks havoc on moving parts, adding years of wear and tear in mere months.
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But as we were riding through a desert, to make things even more challenging, we were caught in a sandstorm.
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Dust whipped up from vehicular traffic is comparable to a desert sandstorm.
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The problem was that rather than offer shelter from the wind the groyne was faciltating a sandstorm around the whole area.
Sand
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Paul's battalion lost five soldiers, the first four in a blinding sandstorm known as the 40-day shamal, or 40 days of wind.
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A severe sandstorm driven by strong northerly winds made conditions for the British soldiers in Kuwait truly appalling on the eve of battle.
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Egyptperiodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
Natural hazards
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Egypt is susceptible to periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, and sandstorms.
Egypt
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His plane made a crash-landing during a sandstorm yesterday.
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In The Mummy, during the scene where Imhotep is conjuring up the sandstorm, the camera pans up in order to not have Arnold Vosloo’s lower half in the scene because a gust of wind blew his robe up and you could see his bare derriere.
Movie Trivia
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Heading for the desert he attempts the Marathon des Sables, an exhausting and dangerous seven-day test of ability, to see what effect dry heat has on the weather, from mirages to the deadly desert sandstorm that is the haboob.
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It's believed 75% of Petra lies under debris from sandstorms and flash floods.
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A sandstorm in a refugee camp near the border of Somalia.
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The beginning of summer is often heralded by violent sandstorms and scorching winds.
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It will be a new moneyspinning franchise, as inexorable as a sandstorm in a desert.
Times, Sunday Times
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A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library.
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Egypt periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
The 2005 CIA World Factbook
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Moreover, because a camel's third eyelid allows the animal to see while protecting its eyes from desert sandstorms, camels could find their way even in the Northwest's equally blinding snowstorms.
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Gyldendal have published Laus Strandby Nielsen's latest collection of poetry, which bears the title Hvis der ikke er sandstorme, så er der nok noget andet If there aren't sandstorms, there's probably something else.
Sandstorms
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Traders were settled in the valley formed by this hill and the northeastern slope of the fort, sheltered equally from the summer sandstorms and icy winter winds.
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The devastating sandstorms - fierce enough to keep a fire team from tackling oil well fires on Wednesday - actually extinguished fires burning at three well heads in the oilfield.
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Sandstorms are common in Iraq in the spring, when the northwesterly shamal wind, funneled into the Mesopotamian plateau by the mountains of Turkey, drags through Iraq and Kuwait enormous quantities of sand it picks up in Syria and Lebanon.
Peace Meals
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The two featurettes are good ones, covering various aspects of the production, such as dealing with violent sandstorms while filming and the amount of detail poured into the storyboards and animatics.
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Every breath she took seemed as loud as the thundering wind of a sandstorm in the great Western Desert.
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In the spring and summer the northern sky would suddenly turn dark brown, or burnt orange, signaling the onslaught of a shamal, a fierce sandstorm that blew in hot northwesterly winds with stinging sand for two or three days at a time.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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Sometime fate is like a sandstorm that keeps changing direction.
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My mouth became a dust bowl, complete with tumbleweed and mini sandstorms, and I actually started to hallucinate about a bottle of Evian.
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That lovely sandstorm 's going to freeze everything in place - except for those church armies that're still coming up out of the gorge.
THE TREASURED ONE
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While the forces sweat and toil in the heat and sandstorms of the desert, it is good for them to know things back home are going well.
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A penetrating sandstorm or dust storm with violent, occurring chiefly in Arabia, Africa, and India.
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The men lost their way in a sandstorm and crossed the border by mistake.
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The downdraught from the rotor raised a miniature sandstorm.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Sandstorms are common during the Saudi Arabian winter.
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Natural Hazards: hot, dry, dust-laden ghibli is a southern wind lasting one to four days in spring and fall; dust storms, sandstorms
Libya
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In Minquin province they live with violent sandstorms, drought and a desert encroaching at five to ten meters a year.
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They had waited all morning for a violent sandstorm to subside, but fear of being caught in the crossfire prompted Daham to leave despite the bad weather.
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Somalian man collects his belongings, which were spread out during a sandstorm at a refugee camp on the Tunisia-Libya border.
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They wove their way into less salubrious areas of the city, where the effects of the day's sandstorm were still apparent.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Conditions were variable, to say the least - on one day, 40-knot winds brought rain and electrical storms, and a sandstorm lasted all day.
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His strong performance delivers the movie from all-out silliness; this is quite a feat, given that he's required to utter lines like ‘That's a sandstorm!’
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There is virtually no rain, and little chance of khamsins, the infamous desert sandstorms that begin in mid - to late March and coat the Nile, its shores and inhabitants with layers of sticky sand.
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Winter winds picked up quickly in the desert causing violent sandstorms every which way.
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This was the plane for which PDS had found a pilot who could put down `on a goat track in the middle of a sandstorm ".
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Sandstorms are hardly novel in Beijing, but the sheer ferocity of these tempests was.
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To keep your bearings in a desert sandstorm is impossible.
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The air was always this coarse in the badlands due to continuous sandstorms and complete lack of humidity in the air.
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Libyahot, dry, dust-laden ghibli is a southern wind lasting one to four days in spring and fall; dust storms, sandstorms
Natural hazards
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It is susceptible to hot, dry, dust-laden southern wind called the sirocco or "ghibli" which lasts one to four days in spring and fall; and, from dust storms and sandstorms.
Libya
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We should reinforce our efforts in tree planting , and forestation making to prevent and cure sandstorms.
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A penetrating sandstorm or dust storm with violent, occurring chiefly in Arabia, Africa, and India.
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The downdraught from the rotor raised a miniature sandstorm.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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QUAID: Two combat search and rescue helicopters known as jollies responded (INAUDIBLE) They worried that you wouldn't come get them because of the sandstorm.
CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007
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The storms around Cartland were particularly vicious, creating huge sandstorms in the desert around them and tearing down unprotected and poorly built houses.
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There is also a great description of a khamsin, the sandstorm wind, and I can vouch for Sussman's accuracy, having been terrified silly by enduring such a phenomenon myself, even though I was in the comparative safety of Cairo.
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Strong winds blow a sandstorm through the camp when suddenly the sound of large artillery rounds is heard about 300 meters away.
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The heavy sandstorm and strong winds that engulfed Baghdad on Tuesday ebbed a little in the early morning but resumed by noon, blowing as hard as they had a day earlier.
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There was a story, too, told by one Abu-Kaka ibn Ja'is, of the caravan that set forth in 1483 to cross the desert, and being overwhelmed by a sandstorm, lost their way.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides, volcanic activity; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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Other natural phenomena also can bury a site, including sandstorms and landslides.
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How big a deal are these sandstorms, which could affect helicopters and other aircraft and tanks?
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The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
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The downdraught from the rotor raised a miniature sandstorm.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Perhaps ongoing sandstorms in the desert will provide time to reinforce overstretched supply lines (although they are also doing tremendous damage to the equipment of the coalition forces).
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For over a month we had only bivvies, the usual rifle-supported blanket, tugging and straining at the stones which held it whenever a 'dust-devil' danced by or a sandstorm arose.
The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad
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During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut
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Sandstorms are common during the Saudi Arabian winter.
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Now, lying on the floor, drenched in sweat, my head a sandstorm of emotion, I know that I've snapped.
CHAMELEON
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The weather had been particularly awful that summer, inclement to the extreme, and yet, every day we had been determined to brave the driving sandstorms, torrential downpours and icy surf.
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The package has had to contend with sandstorms, muddy conditions and oppressive heat.
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He braved civil war, bandit armies, wolves, and sandstorms to uncover the first fossils of the protoceratops dinosaur and the velociraptor theropod in Mongolia.
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The strong hot desert winds, the khamsins, with their associated sandstorms, added to the discomfort.
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Natural hazards: hot, dry, dust-laden ghibli is a southern wind lasting one to four days in spring and fall; dust storms, sandstorms
Libya