high wind

Noun

Meaning

a very strong wind

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Examples

Sleep is when all unsorted stuff comes as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. William Golding

Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind. P. G. Wodehouse

The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others. Malcolm de Chazal

The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind. Shannon Hale

Billy Bennett – I speak of the artist – was forthright, bawdy, and wholesome...[His] grossness had that gusto about it which is like a high wind blowing over a noisome place. Billy Bennett

You've the presence of a mouse fart in a high wind. Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius. Scott Lynch

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