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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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In her provocative new spin on Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, the Oscar-winning filmmaker announces from the get-go that this isn’t your grandmother’s windswept Gothic romance.
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Despite the hardship, life on the windswept isle seems idyllic.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Last July, just up the beach from the polished but windswept luxury lodge Kisawa, the rebuilt Marlin Lodge reopened under the Azura brand.
—Lisa Grainger, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2026
Mostly, people just said the complex was too big and windswept for its own good, especially the lobby, all 600 feet of it.
—Christopher Robbins, Curbed, 9 Feb. 2026
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Despite the hardship, life on the windswept isle seems idyllic.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Last July, just up the beach from the polished but windswept luxury lodge Kisawa, the rebuilt Marlin Lodge reopened under the Azura brand.
—Lisa Grainger, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2026
Mostly, people just said the complex was too big and windswept for its own good, especially the lobby, all 600 feet of it.
—Christopher Robbins, Curbed, 9 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for windswept
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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