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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gust.

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Examples

  • Winds have frequently gusted past 50 mph across the area so far today.

    Forecast: Hazardous winds raging across region 2011

  • She struggled through snowdrifts up to her knees to get to the picket line, she held her sign high even when the winter winds gusted so strongly they threatened to carry it away—and threatened to carry her away.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Half way across the bridge the Chevette stalled out and she ran one wheel up onto the walkway, got out of the passenger door and leaned into the damp wind that gusted up off the water.

    Locomotion Carol Reid 2010

  • Half way across the bridge the Chevette stalled out and she ran one wheel up onto the walkway, got out of the passenger door and leaned into the damp wind that gusted up off the water.

    Locomotion Carol Reid 2011

  • Numerous locations right along the coastline gusted near or past 70 mph.

    PM Update: Cold front to bring fresh chill 2011

  • Winds gusted consistently over 30 mph after 8 a.m. that day and as high as 45 mph.

    Remembering 2010's Snoverkill Jason Samenow 2011

  • Although the storm weakened as it neared the Aleutian islands yesterday, winds gusted to 77 mph in Dutch Harbor according to the National Weather Service.

    Huge Pacific storm to bring high surf to Hawaii Jason Samenow 2011

  • That old enemy, the wind, rose and gusted to sixty miles an hour.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • That old enemy, the wind, rose and gusted to sixty miles an hour.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • At the top of Mt Rainier, sustained winds of 112 mph gusted as high as 137 mph!

    PM Update: Cold front to bring fresh chill 2011

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