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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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The storm will peak during the day on Saturday when a band of windswept rain will pivot from north to south across central and eastern Massachusetts.
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Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Ingham grew up on the Isle of Man, a small, windswept island off the west coast of Britain with a population of around 85,000.
—Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 26 May 2026
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who spent more than two years practicing in solitude as a young man on a windswept New York bridge to reinvent his playing and become one of the giants of jazz, died at the age of 95 on Monday, May 25, his publicist said.
—William Schomberg, USA Today, 25 May 2026
Named by her new owner, Silvia after a Mexican pop star whose 1980s hits ricochet from a rickety TV, Yuri upends Silvia’s solitary existence on a windswept island off the southern coast of Chile, setting the protagonist on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront childhood traumas.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
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Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Ingham grew up on the Isle of Man, a small, windswept island off the west coast of Britain with a population of around 85,000.
—Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 26 May 2026
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who spent more than two years practicing in solitude as a young man on a windswept New York bridge to reinvent his playing and become one of the giants of jazz, died at the age of 95 on Monday, May 25, his publicist said.
—William Schomberg, USA Today, 25 May 2026
Named by her new owner, Silvia after a Mexican pop star whose 1980s hits ricochet from a rickety TV, Yuri upends Silvia’s solitary existence on a windswept island off the southern coast of Chile, setting the protagonist on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront childhood traumas.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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