Information om | Engelska ordet SIMOOM

Exempel på hur man kan använda SIMOOM i en mening

• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears and eyes with dust till you are suffocated, for fear that I should get some of his good done to me – some of its virus mingled with my blood.
• Some days into the voyage, the ship is first becalmed, then hit by a simoom (a combination of a sand storm and hurricane) that capsizes the ship and sends everyone except the narrator and an old Swede overboard.
• The etymology of the word sundowner is uncertain, but it may derive from the Spanish term zonda, or from the Arabic simoom, which are both similar wind phenomena.
• Bertie frequently uses two or three alternative words together to describe the same thing, such as in "Clustering Round Young Bingo", when he uses three equivalent terms when describing a maid's clumsiness: "The one now in office apparently runs through the objets d'art like a typhoon, simoom, or sirocco".

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