How To Use Khamsin In A Sentence
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The British used the Arabic word "khamsin" which means "wind of 50 days.
HIATUS WEEK, Part One
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It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan.
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There is virtually no rain, and little chance of khamsins, the infamous desert sandstorms that begin in mid - to late March and coat the Nile, its shores and inhabitants with layers of sticky sand.
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In the eastern Mediterranean a wind blows out from Libya and Egypt, known as the Khamsin.
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It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan.
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The strong hot desert winds, the khamsins, with their associated sandstorms, added to the discomfort.
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We were greeted by a hot blast of air - not the Egyptian khamsin, the spring desert wind, but warmth generated by a stove that had been cranked all day in a 150-square-foot space.
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This is our second day of Khamsin; yet on the northern slope of the great Fiumara we meet the cool land-wind.
The Land of Midian
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It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan.
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Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides, volcanic activity; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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There is also a great description of a khamsin, the sandstorm wind, and I can vouch for Sussman's accuracy, having been terrified silly by enduring such a phenomenon myself, even though I was in the comparative safety of Cairo.
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Egypt is susceptible to periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, and sandstorms.
Egypt
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Egyptperiodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
Natural hazards
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It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan.
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Fierce winds - the khamsin and the ghibli - threw dust into men's faces, obscuring the battlefield.
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I have heard many complaints and many solutions to problems with exhaust fumes in khamsins.
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Egypt: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides, volcanic activity; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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`Tell me, O master, and they shall vanish like dust before the khamsin wind.
THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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Strong spring winds, known as the khamsin, have roared in on schedule, sending the pollution - which contains deadly sulfur dioxide, as well as traces of poisonous metals such as arsenic, lead and copper - swirling across the Middle East.
Hellfighters To The Rescue
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Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
Egypt
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Egypt periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
The 2005 CIA World Factbook
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It is “an ill wind that blows no one in the Middle East any good,” wrote Time magazine in 1971, adding that the khamsin can “madden men,” cause car accidents, and increase crime rates by as much as 20 percent.
Day of Honey
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There is no vegetation here and the swirling winds are almost as intense as the khamsins in the Sahara.
