The word 'sandstorm' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a storm consisting of strong winds and a mass of sand, dust, and other debris and typically occurring in a desert region. Example sentence: The desert region experienced a powerful sandstorm that caused a lot of destruction.
Bobo explained how to navigate by the stars and survive in a sandstorm – two skills that I hoped I wouldn't need.
Each sample was exposed to the lab-generated sandstorm for five minutes and then weighed to find out how badly it had been eroded.The upshot was that the pattern most resembling scorpion armour with grooves that were 2mm apart, 5mm wide and 4mm high proved best able to withstand the assault.
On March 25th, a vicious, blinding sandstorm whipped the streets of the city, leaving the air full of dark brown dust.
A sandstorm of ethnicities, blown in from around the world and scattered across a continent.
A visit to it in a sandstorm, with clouds of dust blowing into the pristine buildings, makes an Ozymandian fate easy to imagine.
This, to a neutral observer, might seem a little odd considering that the image generally looks more like a fully grown sandstorm than a partly grown baby.
A sandstorm shrouded President Barack Obama's visit to Bethlehem, Jesus' birthplace in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the last-stop on this three-day tour to the holy land.
THOUGH Iraq's future is as clear as a desert sandstorm, three things stand out.
A lack of jobs outside the government has led to youth unemployment of perhaps 30% or more (all statistics in Libya are as blurry as a Saharan sandstorm).Such shortcomings reflect more than simple inefficiencies.
At least a dozen junior Saudi diplomats, for instance, spent much of the past year training in New York for the expected widened duties of council membership.The Kremlinesque opacity of decision-making among the Saudi royal family's elders adds extra spin to the predictable sandstorm of speculation as to the real reasons for the sudden about-face.
The blustery sandstorm spoilt the photo-ops.
