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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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My hair had grown; it would have been ragged, windswept, caked with sea grime.
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Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
Wales tempts with rugged coastlines and windswept castles, and Northern Ireland stuns with the surreal basalt columns of Giant’s Causeway.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Instead of windswept fields and rugged, snowy mountains, the region’s lush, subtropical conditions of 76 million years ago provided ample resources for both terrestrial and flying dinosaurs.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 July 2025
In the windswept Chilean Andes, scientists studied six volcanoes and discovered a chilling trend: melting glaciers are reducing the pressure underground, giving volcanoes room to stretch and potentially explode.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 11 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
Wales tempts with rugged coastlines and windswept castles, and Northern Ireland stuns with the surreal basalt columns of Giant’s Causeway.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Instead of windswept fields and rugged, snowy mountains, the region’s lush, subtropical conditions of 76 million years ago provided ample resources for both terrestrial and flying dinosaurs.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 July 2025
In the windswept Chilean Andes, scientists studied six volcanoes and discovered a chilling trend: melting glaciers are reducing the pressure underground, giving volcanoes room to stretch and potentially explode.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 11 July 2025
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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