windswept headlands. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He took that to mean the deep lines etched on his face from reporting in windswept desert climates with bullets flying. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Christmas Train by David Baldacci] Reference
I think it's the cellphone that does it for me, though the "windswept" hair doesn't help, either. From Wordnik.com. [Etienne Marcel] Reference
They both had the kind of windswept blond hair that made Remy think of places in Colorado he'd never actually seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero]
To figure out why so many people with face-lifts look "windswept" instead of youthful. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
I agree with Sir RB - a full and 'windswept' career needs at least one good blooper, IMHO!. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
'windswept' look quite naturally, within about ten seconds of setting outdoors. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Sometimes his music evokes a barren, windswept plane. From Wordnik.com. [In concert: Fennesz at The Mansion at Strathmore] Reference
This is high over the windswept Arran Islands in Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2008] Reference
The land was windswept, and the sea came crying into the loch. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Four firefighters were killed battling this windswept wildfire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006] Reference
He passed through the airlock and out into the windswept desert. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
And now the U.S. military is helping to contain the windswept fire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2007] Reference
Now in the dream, the cold, windswept day filled with rain. From Wordnik.com. [Roanne's Dream] Reference
But no cloud ever managed to look so rocky, so windswept, or so welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
In many a windswept prairie farm home reigns the sad pride of sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
I said good-bye to her alone, in the reddish, windswept space before the. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
It rises, pyramidlike, on windswept prairie 23 miles northeast of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Build It And Hope They'll Come] Reference
Devant walked with Thornly to the outer door, and then to the windswept piazza. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
Pending such a fate, I was sent to bivouac in a windswept spinney known as Ponne. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
On that windswept shore was the skeleton of the man hung by Magellan years before. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
MATTINGLY: Two hundred fifty British soldiers died retaking the windswept islands. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2004] Reference
That windswept fire destroyed four seaside mansions on Monday and damaged four others. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2007] Reference
Europe gives at last upon the rolling pastures and windswept hills of the open country. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
Tonight, we take you to the windswept slopes and the remarkable rescue of Charles Horton. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2005] Reference
TUCHMAN: In Jeffs 'windswept hometown of Hilldale, Utah, not much interest in talking, either. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2007] Reference
MURPHY: The Rapanui are the original inhabitants of this windswept piece of grass, rock and sand. From Wordnik.com. [For Chile, Colossal Trouble On Easter Island] Reference
I grin sheepishly at the reader, my long, windswept curls accentuating a face full of naive optimism. From Wordnik.com. [From Beyond] Reference
This great, featureless, windswept plateau keeps but a scanty population of less than three millions. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Annette Lu, Taiwan's vice president, was on a windswept island in the Taiwan Strait when the call came. From Wordnik.com. [A President's Last Stand?] Reference
Carolyn reached out, brushed a windswept tuft of hair from above the rock-steady eyes that looked at her. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
“Do you like autumn?” she asked, looking around the gray, windswept parking lot. From Wordnik.com. [Camera Obscura] Reference
The moorland country here is barren and windswept, with disfigurations from mining; and the dismal summit of. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Maybe someplace high up in the mountains with trees propped like the gnarled spines of windswept umbrellas. From Wordnik.com. [The Mosaic Thief] Reference
Between Tachienlu and Lhasa lie many hundred miles of barren, windswept plateaus and perilous mountain passes. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Barrent went on, and by midnight he was starting up the rocky, windswept slope of one of the higher mountains. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
It lay white and windswept, a barricade of emptiness; to one side the spaceport and the white skyscraper of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
The erection of the main college building and the first dormitory only served to heighten its windswept appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
I have passed through these northern lands, from the windswept ways of Alclwyd to the quaking marshes of the Humber. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Rat was a native of Bellatrix VII, an Earth-size windswept world that orbited the bright star in the Orion constellation. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
Not only the landings, but the house, the long flight of steps, and the windswept balcony and shining Light knew his cheerful songs. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
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