gusts

Synonyms

Examples

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. George Eliot

Subjectivism, sectarianism and stereotyped Party writing are no longer the dominant styles, but merely gusts of contrary wind, ill winds from the air-raid tunnels. Mao Zedong

That morning began with wind and hairy clouds. It was late March and the day rose brisk and uncertain, with gusts suggesting January and flashes of sun promising June. In every way, a season of change had come. Roger Kahn

Everything is going fine, even better than I thought, and, it seems, for the first time in my life I feel tremendous satisfaction, and I want to shout something into the wind that hugs my face and makes my red bird shudder with gusts. Sergei Korolev

Mute in the clamour of shells he watched them burst Spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from hell, While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke. Siegfried Sassoon

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings