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  • noun Plural form of sandstorm.

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Examples

  • Farmers around the world could benefit from intercropping with Paulownia, especially in areas with poor soils, climate problems such as sandstorms, high winds, and droughts, and timber, fuelwood, and fodder shortages.

    21. Alley farming 1992

  • Repeating, decades from now we'll no doubt learn just how many helicopters were downed during the Iraq War by something other than 'sandstorms' and 'hard landings due to mechanical failure'.

    Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude 2010

  • It's even better than the Sahara desert because it doesn't have sandstorms.

    South Africa unveils plans for 'world's biggest' solar power plant David Smith in Johannesburg 2010

  • Wexler said these kinds of studies have been performed before, so researchers should have known that the sampling equipment they used would be overwhelmed by sandstorms, that samples should not be kept in plastic containers in a hot environment because they could become contaminated, and that samples should be taken every third day - as has been the EPA standard since 1997 - rather than every sixth day.

    Scientists say Pentagon misleads on dust study 2011

  • The only problems were from the monsoon's clouds, squalls, sandstorms and flash floods.

    Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew Richard Bangs 2011

  • Its, Hyania, The Followers of Uar (21 pages, freshly translated into english) … Wicked sandstorms, strange ceremonies, dark alleys ... barbaric fun for the whole tribe!

    Once Upon a Time in Thiaras! Cromsblood 2009

  • I learned to run in sandstorms, and how to eat my water

    In Paran Larissa Shmailo 2012

  • Wexler said these kinds of studies have been performed before, so researchers should have known that the sampling equipment they used would be overwhelmed by sandstorms, that samples should not be kept in plastic containers in a hot environment because they could become contaminated, and that samples should be taken every third day - as has been the EPA standard since 1997 - rather than every sixth day.

    Scientists say Pentagon misleads on dust study 2011

  • Those crowds kicking the deserts beneath their feet into sandstorms, those aren't computer generated place holders, those are real people, each and every one of them, with all the costume and catering costs that entails.

    MIND MELD: The Best Women Writers in SF/F 2009

  • The real sandstorms out there can be the size of small nations.

    The Well At al-Khiba' (translation in progress) by Ousmane Ouadabou RW Spryszak 2011

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