How to Use sandstorm in a Sentence

sandstorm

noun

• They were caught in a sandstorm.
• In the huge sandstorm of 1882, the farm and much of the surrounding area was buried.
  — Author: Henry Fountain, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Oct. 2017
• If there's a sandstorm, the kart will veer left or right.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2020
• The plane had been flying from Tripoli to Cairo, and got lost during a sandstorm.
  — Cogan Schneier and Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2020
• High winds and a sandstorm plagued the area Tuesday, with winds gusting to 30 mph.
  — Jon Gambrell and Samy Magdy, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• The latest sandstorm is the fourth to hit the country since March 10, and the eighth since the start of the year, state media reported.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
• And like a sandstorm battering a building, this process erodes the edges.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2015
• Gone was all the trivia, whirling away in a sandstorm of memory.
  — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 29 Sep. 2020
• Workers near Pecos, Texas, were caught in a sandstorm that swept through the area on January 10.
  — Julie Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
• The dust was everywhere, like a sudden sandstorm, burning the Nirs’ eyes and throats.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• And the loose soil, combined with Iceland's strong winds, has led to sandstorms that can further damage the land — and even blast the paint off cars.
  — Author: Henry Fountain, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Oct. 2017
• And right as we were supposed to turn the cameras on me, out of nowhere, this gigantic sandstorm hit us.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2022
• Truth is the only bandage to heal this global sandstorm.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2020
• Rarely does a sandstorm sweep Major League Baseball like the one that advanced to and through this year’s trade deadline.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
• That fact has kicked up a bit of a sandstorm back home, with critics speculating on just how much the trip cost.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2022
• Dax and Emily met and fell in love during the nuclear sandstorm.
  — Al Mullen, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• High winds and a sandstorm plagued the area Tuesday, with winds gusting as much as 50 kilometers (30 miles) per hour.
  — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2021
• Dan Balilty’s striking photograph of a man praying on a rooftop in Jerusalem during a sandstorm — with the Dome of the Rock in the background — led the essay.
  — Chris Stanford, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
• The ship turned sideways in a blinding sandstorm and wedged itself into both banks of the waterway.
  — USA Today, 26 Mar. 2021
• In October, the group used the cover of a sandstorm to attack SDF positions there, killing dozens.
  — Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
• Hanks is the tablespoonful of sugar that helps the sandstorm go down.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
• This little black cloud would turn into a sandstorm that was blinding and threw the camera equipment around.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• One time a sandstorm grounded the party at an outpost near Baghdad.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 17 July 2018
• Joel remembers a guy putting dust in their faces to make the sandstorm more realistic.
  — Cindy Watts, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• Egyptian forecasters said high winds and a sandstorm plagued the area Tuesday, with winds gusting as much as 30 mph.
  — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2021
• On Wednesday, a Texas construction crew near Pecos got caught in a brutal sandstorm.
  — Julie Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
• Egyptian forecasters said high winds and a sandstorm plagued the area Tuesday, with winds gusting as much as 50 kph (30 mph).
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 24 Mar. 2021
• The above clip opens with a camera shot speeding toward what appears to be a sandstorm in an unidentified desert.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 20 Sep. 2021
• Buffeted by a sandstorm, the Ever Given had crashed into a bank in a single-lane stretch of the canal about 3.7 miles north of the southern entrance, near the city of Suez.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2021
• We were alerted by a fellow geologist to get ready for the sandstorm, which the Libyans call a ghibli.
  — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024