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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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Evidence of the long human history of this windswept coastline of Cape Froward, and there are occasionally scars on the oldest trees where the Kawésqar people stripped away the bark to line their canoes.
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John Bartlett, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
Just a 20-minute boat ride from the city of Stavanger, Norway, lies a windswept island hiding an unexpected secret.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
Quaint, relaxed, and charmingly windswept, Tisvilde has been drawing Copenhagen’s creative class for decades.
—Mary Holland, airmail.news, 13 July 2024
The service took place at Sandringham, the estate on the windswept North Sea coast that has been a retreat for the royals for generations.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
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John Bartlett, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
Just a 20-minute boat ride from the city of Stavanger, Norway, lies a windswept island hiding an unexpected secret.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
Quaint, relaxed, and charmingly windswept, Tisvilde has been drawing Copenhagen’s creative class for decades.
—Mary Holland, airmail.news, 13 July 2024
The service took place at Sandringham, the estate on the windswept North Sea coast that has been a retreat for the royals for generations.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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