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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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Wander windswept dunes where art meets ecology.
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Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
This part of the state is mostly scrubland, alternately windswept and sunbaked.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
The South ranges from windswept mountains to the balmy Gulf Coast.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Reaching its windswept summit requires a strenuous hike of more than 20 miles roundtrip, ascending to an elevation of 14,505 feet.
—Conor Knighton, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
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Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
This part of the state is mostly scrubland, alternately windswept and sunbaked.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
The South ranges from windswept mountains to the balmy Gulf Coast.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Reaching its windswept summit requires a strenuous hike of more than 20 miles roundtrip, ascending to an elevation of 14,505 feet.
—Conor Knighton, CBS News, 18 Jan. 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 27 Jan. 2026.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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