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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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But despite its issues, Nantucket invites you to explore its maritime history, windswept beauty, and small-town warmth.
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New York Times, 31 July 2025
This stretch of Atlantic coast is the perfect crowd-free escape in the mornings: a long stretch of beach fringed by windswept dunes, with waves that are usually ridable.
—Mary Holland, Robb Report, 10 July 2025
My hair had grown; it would have been ragged, windswept, caked with sea grime.
—Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
Wales tempts with rugged coastlines and windswept castles, and Northern Ireland stuns with the surreal basalt columns of Giant’s Causeway.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
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New York Times, 31 July 2025
This stretch of Atlantic coast is the perfect crowd-free escape in the mornings: a long stretch of beach fringed by windswept dunes, with waves that are usually ridable.
—Mary Holland, Robb Report, 10 July 2025
My hair had grown; it would have been ragged, windswept, caked with sea grime.
—Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
Wales tempts with rugged coastlines and windswept castles, and Northern Ireland stuns with the surreal basalt columns of Giant’s Causeway.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
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 20 Aug. 2025.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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