Samiel (Noun)
Meaning
A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
Examples
- The samiel howled across the desert, whipping up great dunes of sand and reducing visibility to near zero.
- As the sun began to set on the dunes, the travelers huddled for shelter from the impending samiel that would bring scorching heat and sandstorms.
- A fierce samiel had been blowing for days, forcing the nomadic tribes to seek shelter in the oases and wait for the storm to pass.
- The caravan struggled to press on through the endless dunes as a withering samiel stripped the landscape bare and made every step a battle.
- A wall of dust rose on the horizon, signaling the approach of the feared samiel that could prove fatal to anyone caught in its path.