Dictionary entry

Windswept

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪn(d)swɛpt/

Pronunciation

/ˈwɪn(d)swɛpt/

Myanmar Meaning

လေဆန်ကို ရင်ဆိုင်ရသော၊ လေဆန်တိုက်၍ နောက်ပြန်ဆုတ်သွားရသော။

Definition

windswept /'wÇndswept/ adj (က) ေလေၾကာင္းက်ေသာ။ a windswept hillside. (ခ) ေလတိုက္၍ ဖ႐ိုဖရဲျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ windswept hair.

Examples

  1. ‘The Cape of Good Hope is a wild
  2. windswept nature reserve that would pass for coastal Kerry
  3. except for the baboons and unusual vegetation.’
  4. ‘The fen part of the county
  5. with its vast horizons and lonely windswept fields
  6. has always been an acquired taste.’
  7. ‘Inverewe Gardens and lively Ullapool are at odds with the rugged
  8. windswept landscape of the Wester Ross coast
  9. discovers Tom Lappin’
  10. ‘As I looked out over the windswept landscape
  11. I felt as if I were pulled into the drama revealing itself to me.’
  12. ‘‘We all have our reasons for living here
  13. ’ said one
  14. spreading her arms wide to take in the vast expanse of barren
  15. windswept land.’
  16. ‘After the Great Famine
  17. many who had started life in a windswept village found themselves ending it in Hammersmith or Hell's Kitchen.’
  18. ‘Among the rich and the famous who came to mourn her
  19. one figure stood out in the windswept cemetery - Frank Sinatra.’
  20. ‘Our new training oval that replaced the best surface in the AFL at Victoria Park
  21. is nothing more than an undersized windswept ghetto that was once a swamp.’
  22. ‘Before arriving on our windswept streets
  23. Walker served as the Executive Director of Vermont Stage Company.’
  24. ‘My family's roots are in Lanarkshire
  25. where funerals are typically sombre affairs held in a chapel
  26. followed by a graveside service at a windswept cemetery.’
  27. ‘We'd recommend against choosing redwood or any other natural wood in the wet and windswept environment you describe.’
  28. ‘After a plantation of conifers there was a windswept field.’
  29. ‘The prospect of an intense evening of ‘towpath humping’ at a rainy
  30. windswept canal near Paisley doesn't faze the actress in the least.’
  31. ‘Every weekend thousands of thrifty Yorkshire folk trek to windswept fields to rummage through boxes of junk in the hope of finding something special.’
  32. ‘An isolated
  33. bleak windswept wilderness it lies well off the beaten track and until recently was completely closed to foreigners.’
  34. ‘His move to transform what was once just a windswept field came in the wake of government plans to recycle burial areas
  35. because space in the nation's cemeteries is running out.’
  36. ‘Dripping wet and deeply disturbed
  37. the smartly-dressed man was discovered walking along a windswept road beside the sea.’
  38. ‘Walking on wet limestone is like walking on ice and the windswept nature of the region makes death from exposure a very real threat.’
  39. ‘There was something raw and elemental about Dorset's windswept landscape that I'd missed
  40. and which I needed
  41. if only to remind myself what the city lacked.’
  42. ‘The violet flowers of butterworts nod manically at the roadside
  43. seeming too delicate for this windswept terrain.’