[
US
/ˈwɪnˌswɛpt/
]
[ UK /wˈɪndswɛpt/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪndswɛpt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
open to or swept by wind
windswept headlands
How To Use windswept In A Sentence
- It is more than a decade since a coach and her young prodigy stood on a windswept Sheffield running track and envisaged the future. Times, Sunday Times
- Lake Taupo looked windswept and the volcanoes were obscured by low grey cloud.
- I have many memories of being foundered on that windswept strand in the name of family holiday time.
- We stood on the windswept ridge and looked down at the valley below.
- Can't see the windswept look catching on. The Sun
- In 2003, Dutch agriculturalist Marc de Ruiter saw dairy farmers in windswept Shanxi province literally pouring their milk down the drain because there was not enough demand.
- We double-teamed the flocks, an archer in the lead and the scattergun as backup when the birds took to wing, watching for hunting jaegers and glassing from windswept ridgelines. The Great Alaskan Cast and Blast
- Below, the greens of windswept reeds and phragmites are intersected constantly by the twisting, interlocking Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, canal drainages, raised highways and railroad tracks.
- After all, balloons defy gravity and bob around in the air, just like windswept hair. The Sun
- Bermuda's windswept northern coastline is protected from spray by non-native tamarisk trees.