windblown

adjective wind·blown \ ˈwin(d)-ˌblōn \

Updated on: 15 May 2018

Definition of windblown

: blown by the wind; especially : having a permanent set or character of growth determined by the prevailing winds

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Standing between the wall and the viewer is the interpretive figure of the Storyteller, a sculpture whose simple windblown robes suggest a kind of timelessness.

— ryan p. smith, Smithsonian, "One of These Five Innovative Memorials Will Soon Honor Native American Veterans," 11 May 2018
There was speculation among scientists at an international symposium on E. coli in Florence, Italy, this week that the source of the outbreak could be shared irrigation water or windblown dust.

— robert anglen, azcentral, "Is it safe to eat salad with all the news about E. coli?," 10 May 2018
He was always drawn to narrow niches: United States airmail stamps, for instance, and half-dollars that depict windblown Liberty in midstride.

— New York Times, "A Tiffany Collector of Things Pastel," 8 May 2018
So is a humorous picture of a man at the track grappling with a windblown newspaper (probably Racing Form).

— arthur lubow, BostonGlobe.com, "Before Stanley Kubrick wrote scripts, he took photos," 2 May 2018
According to HelloGiggles, the fan was never turned on by the techie in charge of keeping Beyoncé appropriately windblown.

— molly horan, Glamour, "Watch Beyoncé Fix a Mistake Mid-Performance Without Even Stopping," 23 Apr. 2018
Snow buntings like windblown hillsides and clear roadsides where there are grass seeds exposed.

— john schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, "In Interior Alaska, snow came late and then stuck around with a vengeance," 10 Apr. 2018
While boarding Air Force One en route from Maryland to West Virginia to discuss tax reform on Thursday, Trump found his windblown hair snapped by photographers and captured on video.

— raisa bruner, Time, "The Internet Can't Stop Cracking Jokes About Donald Trump's Hair Blowing in the Wind," 5 Apr. 2018
Some areas of Britain have already seen eight inches of powdery, windblown snow Tuesday.

— john hopewell, Washington Post, "Rare ‘sea-effect’ snowstorm plasters eastern Britain in white," 27 Feb. 2018

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