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Example sentences for "sandstorm"

Lexicographically close words:
sandpit; sands; sandspit; sandstone; sandstones; sandstorms; sandwich; sandwiched; sandwichensis; sandwiches
  1. A fearful sandstorm was blowing, and we were enveloped in clouds of dust--a fitting advent to the capital of the Mahdi's empire!

  2. Was half a day late at the Little Colorado, saw your train cross Moncaupie Wash, and missed you because of the sandstorm there.

  3. Suddenly as it had come, the sandstorm passed.

  4. If there's no new sandstorm to bury the radiation refrigerators Bordman brought to mind, we can keep alive with hydroponics until a ship can arrive with something useful!

  5. Some weeks later in the desert a great sandstorm overtook us in which we barely escaped with our lives.

  6. That is--well, they said if it hadn't been for that sandstorm they would surely have found the body.

  7. Before the sun had set in the red glow of a sandstorm the desert was staked for miles.

  8. When the sandstorm comes from the desert, it is not like that.

  9. A severe sandstorm got up at night, and in the morning we had hardly a tent standing.

  10. Of the order of their coming is no mention, but then, not even official records, I believe, could have lucidly sustained the sandstorm that snarled over Luderitzbucht throughout the whole of that infernal week.

  11. A new sandstorm blew up and swallowed them, and when, weeks later, it spat them out again, they had all but lost their identity as far as we were concerned.

  12. Wargrave stood out and apart from the other officers of the regiment; and his companionship during the uncomfortable incident of the sandstorm bulked unaccountably large in her mind.

  13. He had hitherto no experience of desert country; and the sudden darkness and the grim menace of the approaching black wall of the sandstorm seemed to threaten disaster.

  14. For three hours the sandstorm continued to rage in fury, and then, abruptly, the wind died down, the last flurry subsided, and the colonists got under way again.

  15. You don't know what it means to a kid like Freddy to ride through a sandstorm in the company of grownups.

  16. He had not noticed this exposed ledge during their flight into the draw, and it was evident that the sandstorm had exposed it.

  17. When he awoke an hour or two later and looked down the draw to the open desert, he saw that another sandstorm was raging.

  18. The late sandstorm uncovered the ledge, and it looks 'fat' enough for yours truly.

  19. You told a tale of a sandstorm and of having been separated from two Indians you had employed.

  20. The sandstorm had left the white boys weak, and as they had already stinted themselves of water for the last day and a half, they were in no condition to meet this new calamity.

  21. He would naturally have thought that his former companions had either been killed or carried off, and as the sandstorm had covered up all tracks, he would not have known which way to follow them.

  22. When at length the camp grew quiet, and I cast myself down to rest, all slumber was prevented by reason of the terrible sandstorm that sprang up, roaring over the oasis and screaming most melancholy in the palms.

  23. Thus, vigilant and feverishly anxious, I waited until the sandstorm passed and the dawn was no longer obscured, then rose, half surprised that I still lived to witness the glorious sunrise.

  24. As the sandstorm abated, and dawn spread, the scene was awful.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sandstorm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    devil; sirocco; storm