Sentence examples for acrid wind from inspiring English sources

No, there isn't a 9/11 disaster to provide an awful, acrid wind in the sails of this particular bill.

Firefighters south of the complex faced the worst conditions, with a steady wind blowing acrid black smoke and huge plumes of dust in their faces.

The family home across the road from the abandoned coal mine is starting to deteriorate in the wind and acrid pollution, and they have scant savings to rebuild it.

And in combination, as when angelic harp arpeggios are played against acrid chords in the winds, the sweet poison in the turn-of-the-century Vienna air lives in the pungent harmonies.

The wind carried the acrid smell of several burned vehicles across town, and most Muslims hid in their homes.

It shook buildings more than a mile away, and the wind carried the acrid smell of smoke across the Tigris River into downtown Baghdad.

Unusually strong winds pushed heavy, acrid smoke from a New Jersey brush fire across the Hudson River and into the streets of the West Side of Manhattan yesterday.

For days on end in October, insatiable flames and acrid smoke whipped by Santa Ana winds transformed a large swath of the San Diego area into a living hell.

The morning after a shifting wind sent us an acrid burning odor from the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center 40 miles away, I felt a sudden urge to fly an American flag instead.

That is because the state wants to provide shuttle service and privacy to any family member who wants to pay last respects before a charred gouge in a hillside off Cowesett Avenue, where the winter winds sometimes carry the acrid whiff of loss.

Extreme drought in the region has fuelled the fires and monsoon winds are blowing the acrid smoke back across Sumatra island instead of Malaysia and Singapore, explaining why the latest fire crisis hasn't received as much publicity as last year.