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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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The clip also highlights Klum's makeup-free face and windswept beach hair.
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Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 14 July 2025
This is wide open and windswept terrain dotted by olive groves, poppies, stone farmhouses, eucalyptus trees, yellow flowers of the ginestra plant and wind rocked white tops of wild carrots.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Check out some of the more windswept but quieter beaches on the east side of the island, too.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
Much of the land best suited for new housing — windswept, grassy hills surrounding the state’s major cities — now faces an extreme threat of wildfire, brutally illustrated by the Los Angeles-area blazes in January that killed 30 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 2 July 2025
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Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 14 July 2025
This is wide open and windswept terrain dotted by olive groves, poppies, stone farmhouses, eucalyptus trees, yellow flowers of the ginestra plant and wind rocked white tops of wild carrots.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Check out some of the more windswept but quieter beaches on the east side of the island, too.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
Much of the land best suited for new housing — windswept, grassy hills surrounding the state’s major cities — now faces an extreme threat of wildfire, brutally illustrated by the Los Angeles-area blazes in January that killed 30 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 2 July 2025
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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