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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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No complicated layers or fancy highlights, just healthy shoulder-length hair and windswept side bangs.
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 June 2025
Despite the hardship, life on the beautiful, windswept island almost feels like paradise.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 May 2025
Some six inches shorter than Sasaki and 60 pounds lighter, Inoue left Japan for the first time in 2022, and arrived in Scottsbluff, Neb. on the windswept eastern edge of the Rocky Mountain foothills, population 14,000.
—Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 29 May 2025
The tongue, an offshoot of Syrian Arabic that has absorbed some Greek, has been passed from generation to generation in this windswept community in Cyprus.
—Menelaos Hadjicostis, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 June 2025
Despite the hardship, life on the beautiful, windswept island almost feels like paradise.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 May 2025
Some six inches shorter than Sasaki and 60 pounds lighter, Inoue left Japan for the first time in 2022, and arrived in Scottsbluff, Neb. on the windswept eastern edge of the Rocky Mountain foothills, population 14,000.
—Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 29 May 2025
The tongue, an offshoot of Syrian Arabic that has absorbed some Greek, has been passed from generation to generation in this windswept community in Cyprus.
—Menelaos Hadjicostis, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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