windy

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Wind & winds
anemometer
blast
chinook
crosswind
cyclonic
easterly
gale
leeward
northerly
sea breeze
sigh
slipstream
stiff
the Coriolis effect
tornado
vorticity
weathervane
windblown
windswept
wuthering

Examples of blowy

blowy
Her hair was blowy, her face a keen pink, her eyes an electric blue by contrast.
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It has been deuced lonesome these dark blowy nights along back.
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The weather was alternately still, rainy and blowy.
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He felt young and smart this blowy morning.
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A blowy, corn-colored curl caught like a tendril and curled round the brim.
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The weather was alternately still, rainy, and blowy.
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Because of exercise her color was high--quite pink--and her dusty, reddish hair was blowy.
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She had been a child then--seventeen, with cornflower eyes and blowy daffodil hair.
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Everywhere there were girls in their blowy summer dresses--girls of all kinds and sorts.
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She luffed cleverly, having a splendid blowy time of it, and put about.
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Windows and doors were always open, so the passages were blowy with the dreamy, drowsy smell of green things growing.
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It was thin and blowy, and so modeled as to pronounce rather than to hide the lines of the figure.
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He was through struggling with those old coats of his father that on blowy days filled like mainsails and made him trot down the wind in spite of himself.
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A young girl with blowy hair, perched among things ancient, her white hands folded, patient for the future, with the pain of joy in her wide child's eyes!
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It was a grunty, blowy snort.
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