windswept Значение & определение

Примери за windswept

• If we do not ratify the treaty it will be akin to that famous train stopping at some windswept, barren, wayside station.

• If more of our better lands—not the best—were put to woodland or forestry we would create a variation in the countryside and improve windswept areas with few hedges.

• The proposed site for the airport is a black, wild, windswept and deserted piece of flat rock, which ends in a sheer drop of some 800 ft into the ocean.

• We have creeks and coves, windswept cliffs and sun-soaked and glorious beaches, but that beauty, like so much in life, cannot mask the underlying problems that scar the area.

• They are cold, dark, windswept and desolate.

• When one drives around those parts of cities which have recently been rebuilt one often sees some council estates—very often tower block accommodation—or windswept and deserted shopping centres.

• The gullies contain orchids and ferns, while the hilltops have stunted scrub and low windswept trees.

• The windswept west coast is steep and rocky with a very deep sea bottom.