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  • noun Plural form of haboob.

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Examples

  • Then the choppers had run into what Iranians call haboobs—clouds of powdery white sand suspended in the air for miles by shifts in the atmospheric pressure above the desert floor.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Then the choppers had run into what Iranians call haboobs—clouds of powdery white sand suspended in the air for miles by shifts in the atmospheric pressure above the desert floor.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Then the choppers had run into what Iranians call haboobs—clouds of powdery white sand suspended in the air for miles by shifts in the atmospheric pressure above the desert floor.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Weather officials say such massive dust storms, also known as haboobs in Arabic, only happen in Arizona, Africa's Sahara desert and parts of the Middle East because of dry conditions and large amounts of sand.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Huge sand storms dubbed "haboobs" occur often in the sweltering summer monsoon season in the southwest United States.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Huge sand storms dubbed "haboobs" occur often in the sweltering summer monsoon season in the southwest United States.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The planes, including Weaver's, navigated two "haboobs" clouds of fine desert sand sitting motionless in the air with little problem, but they couldn't warn the more vulnerable helicopters of the looming danger.

    Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage 2010

  • Weather officials say haboobs happen only in Arizona, the Sahara desert and parts of the Middle East because of dry conditions and large amounts of sand.

    Dust storm envelops Phoenix, downs power lines 2011

  • Weather officials say haboobs happen only in Arizona, the Sahara desert and parts of the Middle East because of dry conditions and large amounts of sand.

    Dust storm envelops Phoenix, downs power lines 2011

  • The talcum-like dust from the haboobs had penetrated every nook and cranny of the aircraft, seeping into the engines, the cockpits, and the thousands of moving parts and raising the temperature inside the machines.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

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