How to Use windblown in a Sentence

windblown

adjective

• My 8-year-old pointed out the piles of windblown ash by the curb.
  — Katharine Gammon, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2025
• From the top of the rocks the steppe rolled to the horizon, a vast sheet striped with windblown snow.
  — Lucy Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2021
• Over time, windblown silt buried them deep, locking them in permafrost.
  — Katie Orlinsky, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• Sunburned eyes gaze over a scarf worn as a disguise or to keep out the windblown sand, or both.
  — Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2019
• In healthy people, these cells, which are long and hairlike, sway freely like windblown grass.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 23 Oct. 2019
• On each label is an image of a woman’s head with windblown hair.
  — Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• The center of town is on the low ridges and hills of loess, windblown dirt and sand from the Delta.
  — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021
• Sugary, windblown snow in parts of the trail made the race slower, Diehl said.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2023
• Reyes struck out on a foul tip, cued a grounder to third base and reached in his final at-bat on a windblown pop-up.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 26 June 2016
• Win was lean and athletic, with high cheekbones and windblown hair.
  — Kate Daloz, The New Yorker, 14 May 2017
• Snow buntings like windblown hillsides and clear roadsides where there are grass seeds exposed.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Their long hair would be windblown, doors would open for them, their family would love them more, men would smile at them.
  — Tasnim Ahmed, Allure, 27 Mar. 2018
• Windblown grit carves exposed rocks on the valley rim into curved and hollowed forms.
  — Photographs and Text By Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• The windblown ice tends to look blue compared with the surrounding surface snow.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
• By trapping windblown sand, the seaweed can help fortify and grow sand dunes.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• Above this is a windblown layer of small bits of plaster, charcoal, and limestone spherules.
  — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• The upper blocks throbbed and pulsed a deep blue, reflecting the pond’s windblown currents.
  — Jack Korngold, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
• The angle of the camera is lower in the new version; her windblown locks darker and wilder.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• In all, Catherine’s hair is loose, slightly tousled and windblown.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• After many thousands of years, the soil has been altered by a mix of windblown sand and particles of seashells.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• Once electric with pink cherry blossoms and bright green grass, now a blast zone of concrete shavings and windblown dregs.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 29 July 2020
• Rain fell in dense, windblown sheets, buildings vanished from view, and trees that remained upright swayed before the fierce gusts.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
• A lot of small, windblown trash has been found over the years – like the netting material found recently.
  — Cagri Kilic, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2022
• But pavers can get soiled with muddy shoes, windblown dirt, food spills, and standing water—and these require a bit more elbow grease.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2022
• This windblown sand is what stranded our field vehicles in 2014.
  — Matthew A. Brown, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
• Skow said windblown snow tends to pile up in the area that buckled near the front of the building, citing a 5-foot drift near the flagpole.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• Hazan climbed high on the windblown beach and held the female pup up, allowing its meek calls to project over the clamoring waves.
  — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Chambers, a junior, helped his cause with an acrobatic catch of a windblown pop-up to save a run in the top of the seventh.
  — Randy Jennings, Dallas News, 8 May 2021
• Outside the window of my ice shanty, Steve and Rigby sat side by side in a haze of windblown snow.
  — Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2021
• Dark-wash stovepipes, discreet handbag, some fine shades, and the unbeatable look is windblown and truly fresh-off-the-boat.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025