Sentence examples for thick sandstorm from inspiring English sources
A thick sandstorm covers the Firdous Square and the 14th of Ramadan mosque in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 5, 2009.
And -- not surprisingly -- the clouds of political controversy hovering above the renegade entity were as thick as the frequent sandstorms in the Gulf are.
Album opener "Stray Dog" welcomes listeners to The English Beach's desolate world: its unsettling drone, thick and looming like a sandstorm, falls in and out of focus beneath a man's forewarning monologue, and the sound of dogs barking.
This, amid the gloom of the sandstorm and the clouds of thick black smoke, was another reason Baghdad's spirits were at a low ebb today.
Every spring beginning about ten years ago, when I was seven-years old, sandstorms would blanket the city, leaving behind a thick layer of sand that covered everything.
In just one hour, a desert sandstorm can plaster even the toughest solar panels with a thick layer of residue, reducing their efficiency by upwards of 70-80%.
The sky over northern Kuwait was so thick with assault and transport helicopters that meteorologists trying to track an advancing sandstorm were forbidden to launch their weather balloons.
Phoenix residents awoke on Wednesday to a thick layer of dust on their cars, their streets and just about everything else outside after a giant sandstorm more than a mile high roared through the city.
Unlike a sandstorm, which whips up large grains from the surface, a dust storm transports quantities of fine sand and leaves a thick deposit in its wake.
