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单词 windswept
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Definition of windswept in English:

windswept

adjectiveˈwɪn(d)swɛptˈwɪn(d)swɛpt
  • 1(of a place) exposed to strong winds.

    (地方)受强风侵袭的

    the windswept moors

    受大风侵袭的沼泽地。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • An isolated, bleak windswept wilderness it lies well off the beaten track and until recently was completely closed to foreigners.
    • The violet flowers of butterworts nod manically at the roadside, seeming too delicate for this windswept terrain.
    • We'd recommend against choosing redwood or any other natural wood in the wet and windswept environment you describe.
    • ‘We all have our reasons for living here,’ said one, spreading her arms wide to take in the vast expanse of barren, windswept land.
    • The fen part of the county, with its vast horizons and lonely windswept fields, has always been an acquired taste.
    • My family's roots are in Lanarkshire, where funerals are typically sombre affairs held in a chapel, followed by a graveside service at a windswept cemetery.
    • As I looked out over the windswept landscape, I felt as if I were pulled into the drama revealing itself to me.
    • The prospect of an intense evening of ‘towpath humping’ at a rainy, windswept canal near Paisley doesn't faze the actress in the least.
    • Every weekend thousands of thrifty Yorkshire folk trek to windswept fields to rummage through boxes of junk in the hope of finding something special.
    • Before arriving on our windswept streets, Walker served as the Executive Director of Vermont Stage Company.
    • His move to transform what was once just a windswept field came in the wake of government plans to recycle burial areas, because space in the nation's cemeteries is running out.
    • Our new training oval that replaced the best surface in the AFL at Victoria Park, is nothing more than an undersized windswept ghetto that was once a swamp.
    • Dripping wet and deeply disturbed, the smartly-dressed man was discovered walking along a windswept road beside the sea.
    • After the Great Famine, many who had started life in a windswept village found themselves ending it in Hammersmith or Hell's Kitchen.
    • After a plantation of conifers there was a windswept field.
    • Inverewe Gardens and lively Ullapool are at odds with the rugged, windswept landscape of the Wester Ross coast, discovers Tom Lappin
    • Walking on wet limestone is like walking on ice and the windswept nature of the region makes death from exposure a very real threat.
    • Among the rich and the famous who came to mourn her, one figure stood out in the windswept cemetery - Frank Sinatra.
    • The Cape of Good Hope is a wild, windswept nature reserve that would pass for coastal Kerry, except for the baboons and unusual vegetation.
    • There was something raw and elemental about Dorset's windswept landscape that I'd missed, and which I needed, if only to remind myself what the city lacked.
    Synonyms
    exposed, unprotected, bleak, bare, desolate
    windy, blowy
    1. 1.1 Untidy in appearance after being exposed to the wind.
      (人或其外表)被风刮得不整洁的
      his windswept hair

      他那被风吹乱的头发。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A plump teenage boy stares back at me with wide eyes set in a pale face crowned with windswept dark hair.
      • Her hair was windswept, the stray strands gently framing her rosy face.
      • His white blonde hair was windswept and dishevelled, and his bright blue eyes were bright and alert.
      • I ran a hand through my windswept hair and glanced down at my clothes.
      • Rhea peeked out from the cover of her arms, drawing her windswept hair away from her tear-filled eyes.
      • The quiet atmosphere of the room was shattered by Noah's entrance; he burst through the door, his face flushed and his hair windswept.
      • Tyler ran his hand through his already windswept hair.
      • There was a smudge of dirt across her nose and her hair was windswept.
      • Hague looked hopelessly windswept as his strands of hair got blown about.
      • We slowly got up, our hair windswept, our heads aching with dizziness.
      • Ashtaye's long, ebony hair was still windswept, and Tara's equally long, white hair was still silky.
      • Her hair was short and windswept, and its color matched the pale purple of the sky at twilight.
      • He had that sort of windswept hair and unshaven look that only an artist could pull off.
      • His shock of black hair looked windswept, and beneath it, his eyes peered out curiously from behind wire-frame glasses.
      • He was a bit windswept, his hair rather unkempt and his jacket wrinkled, after riding such a long way on horseback, but he looked the same as ever to the girls.
      • Her face is splattered with mud and her hair is tangled and windswept.
      Synonyms
      dishevelled, tousled, unkempt, windblown, untidy, messy, disordered, disarranged
      North American mussed up

Definition of windswept in US English:

windswept

adjectiveˈwin(d)sweptˈwɪn(d)swɛpt
  • 1(of a place) exposed to strong winds.

    (地方)受强风侵袭的

    the windswept moors

    受大风侵袭的沼泽地。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Among the rich and the famous who came to mourn her, one figure stood out in the windswept cemetery - Frank Sinatra.
    • We'd recommend against choosing redwood or any other natural wood in the wet and windswept environment you describe.
    • There was something raw and elemental about Dorset's windswept landscape that I'd missed, and which I needed, if only to remind myself what the city lacked.
    • Inverewe Gardens and lively Ullapool are at odds with the rugged, windswept landscape of the Wester Ross coast, discovers Tom Lappin
    • The violet flowers of butterworts nod manically at the roadside, seeming too delicate for this windswept terrain.
    • My family's roots are in Lanarkshire, where funerals are typically sombre affairs held in a chapel, followed by a graveside service at a windswept cemetery.
    • ‘We all have our reasons for living here,’ said one, spreading her arms wide to take in the vast expanse of barren, windswept land.
    • As I looked out over the windswept landscape, I felt as if I were pulled into the drama revealing itself to me.
    • Before arriving on our windswept streets, Walker served as the Executive Director of Vermont Stage Company.
    • After the Great Famine, many who had started life in a windswept village found themselves ending it in Hammersmith or Hell's Kitchen.
    • Every weekend thousands of thrifty Yorkshire folk trek to windswept fields to rummage through boxes of junk in the hope of finding something special.
    • His move to transform what was once just a windswept field came in the wake of government plans to recycle burial areas, because space in the nation's cemeteries is running out.
    • Our new training oval that replaced the best surface in the AFL at Victoria Park, is nothing more than an undersized windswept ghetto that was once a swamp.
    • After a plantation of conifers there was a windswept field.
    • The fen part of the county, with its vast horizons and lonely windswept fields, has always been an acquired taste.
    • An isolated, bleak windswept wilderness it lies well off the beaten track and until recently was completely closed to foreigners.
    • Walking on wet limestone is like walking on ice and the windswept nature of the region makes death from exposure a very real threat.
    • The prospect of an intense evening of ‘towpath humping’ at a rainy, windswept canal near Paisley doesn't faze the actress in the least.
    • Dripping wet and deeply disturbed, the smartly-dressed man was discovered walking along a windswept road beside the sea.
    • The Cape of Good Hope is a wild, windswept nature reserve that would pass for coastal Kerry, except for the baboons and unusual vegetation.
    Synonyms
    exposed, unprotected, bleak, bare, desolate
    1. 1.1 Untidy in appearance after being exposed to the wind.
      (人或其外表)被风刮得不整洁的
      his windswept hair

      他那被风吹乱的头发。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He had that sort of windswept hair and unshaven look that only an artist could pull off.
      • He was a bit windswept, his hair rather unkempt and his jacket wrinkled, after riding such a long way on horseback, but he looked the same as ever to the girls.
      • Her face is splattered with mud and her hair is tangled and windswept.
      • Ashtaye's long, ebony hair was still windswept, and Tara's equally long, white hair was still silky.
      • Her hair was short and windswept, and its color matched the pale purple of the sky at twilight.
      • Her hair was windswept, the stray strands gently framing her rosy face.
      • The quiet atmosphere of the room was shattered by Noah's entrance; he burst through the door, his face flushed and his hair windswept.
      • A plump teenage boy stares back at me with wide eyes set in a pale face crowned with windswept dark hair.
      • There was a smudge of dirt across her nose and her hair was windswept.
      • We slowly got up, our hair windswept, our heads aching with dizziness.
      • Tyler ran his hand through his already windswept hair.
      • Rhea peeked out from the cover of her arms, drawing her windswept hair away from her tear-filled eyes.
      • I ran a hand through my windswept hair and glanced down at my clothes.
      • Hague looked hopelessly windswept as his strands of hair got blown about.
      • His shock of black hair looked windswept, and beneath it, his eyes peered out curiously from behind wire-frame glasses.
      • His white blonde hair was windswept and dishevelled, and his bright blue eyes were bright and alert.
      Synonyms
      dishevelled, tousled, unkempt, windblown, untidy, messy, disordered, disarranged
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