windswept

/ ˈwɪndˌswɛpt /

adjective

1. open to or swept by the wind
2. another word for windblown

Example Sentences

There was considerable drinking and smoking in the crowd, making the environment akin to some sort of right-wing Shakedown Street and even on the windswept midtown street the smell of tobacco hung over the crowd.

From Salon

The part of Rona is the kind of I-contain-multitudes acting job you should only trust to someone who commands a frame with ease, which is why director Nora Fingscheidt, in adapting co-screenwriter Amy Liptrot’s memoir, is fortunate Saoirse Ronan knows how to do more than hold her own against the Orkney archipelago’s breathtaking, windswept remoteness.

From Los Angeles Times

Rushmore; with his windswept hair and his craggy face, the singer and songwriter also looked like a guy meant for sculpted eternity.

From Los Angeles Times

The New York Times decided that Smith & Dench "sink into their roles as comfortably as house cats burrowing into a down quilt on a windswept, rainy night".

From BBC

Yet the Eagles’ Sphere production is for sure a less elaborate visual spectacle than its predecessors, with quite a few songs — “One of These Nights,” “Witchy Woman,” “Lyin’ Eyes,” “Tequila Sunrise,” “Seven Bridges Road” — accompanied by variations on a windswept desert vista or a mossy forest or a starry night sky.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• blustery
• boisterous
• brisk
• gusty
• stormy