How to Use windblown in a Sentence

windblown

adjective
  • From the top of the rocks the steppe rolled to the horizon, a vast sheet striped with windblown snow.
    Lucy Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The center of town is on the low ridges and hills of loess, windblown dirt and sand from the Delta.
    Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021
  • Sugary, windblown snow in parts of the trail made the race slower, Diehl said.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The clear Delta River and the pipeline route over the Top of the World both have snow and decent ice, but are windblown and bumpy.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2018
  • A windblown plastic bag or a bird resting briefly will not set off the alarm.
    Chuck Squatriglia, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2011
  • Sunburned eyes gaze over a scarf worn as a disguise or to keep out the windblown sand, or both.
    Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Reyes struck out on a foul tip, cued a grounder to third base and reached in his final at-bat on a windblown pop-up.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 26 June 2016
  • Skow said windblown snow tends to pile up in the area that buckled near the front of the building, citing a 5-foot drift near the flagpole.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The angle of the camera is lower in the new version; her windblown locks darker and wilder.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • In healthy people, these cells, which are long and hairlike, sway freely like windblown grass.
    Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Outside the window of my ice shanty, Steve and Rigby sat side by side in a haze of windblown snow.
    Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Over time, windblown silt buried them deep, locking them in permafrost.
    Katie Orlinsky, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • On each label is an image of a woman’s head with windblown hair.
    Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Their long hair would be windblown, doors would open for them, their family would love them more, men would smile at them.
    Tasnim Ahmed, Allure, 27 Mar. 2018
  • After many thousands of years, the soil has been altered by a mix of windblown sand and particles of seashells.
    Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • More than 20 inches of snow had fallen in the Kenai area by Monday, with windblown drifts as well.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Chambers, a junior, helped his cause with an acrobatic catch of a windblown pop-up to save a run in the top of the seventh.
    Randy Jennings, Dallas News, 8 May 2021
  • Above this is a windblown layer of small bits of plaster, charcoal, and limestone spherules.
    Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Win was lean and athletic, with high cheekbones and windblown hair.
    Kate Daloz, The New Yorker, 14 May 2017
  • Sheets of blinding, windblown rain curtain the view of Rosslyn from the Foggy Bottom area.
    Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In the Pleistocene dunes at Le Rozel, muddy sand would have held tracks well, and windblown sand would have quickly filled and covered them.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The ground is rubble, broken stone sprinkled with windblown snow.
    Porter Fox, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Cal Fire officials organized lines at the edge of the valley floor as the blaze threatened to roar down through windblown canyons.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
  • She was asked to toss the veil into the air, and then hurry out of the picture — an attempt to create a natural, windblown look.
    Caroline Alkire, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Hazan climbed high on the windblown beach and held the female pup up, allowing its meek calls to project over the clamoring waves.
    Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Snow buntings like windblown hillsides and clear roadsides where there are grass seeds exposed.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Windblown grit carves exposed rocks on the valley rim into curved and hollowed forms.
    Photographs and Text By Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • By trapping windblown sand, the seaweed can help fortify and grow sand dunes.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Even before the war Ngwom, with its featureless landscape and windblown goat trails, wouldn’t have been much to look at.
    Time, 29 June 2017
  • In all, Catherine’s hair is loose, slightly tousled and windblown.
    New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022

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