(a.) Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) She lives in Holland Park and welcomes visitors with a gusty wrench of the door and a jubilant "hello".
(2) Fires began erupting on Tuesday amid high heat, extremely low humidity and gusty Santa Ana winds.
(3) Heavy rain is expected to return overnight with winds of up to 50mph bringing a gusty end to the bank holiday weekend.
(4) Firefighters contended with temperatures approaching 100F (38C) and gusty winds as they tried to contain flames fuelled by brush and trees left brittle by drought.
(5) Visibility could be significantly reduced at times with strong and gusty winds likely to accompany snow showers.
(6) A powerful storm system that caused hundreds of accidents across the western US has marched east with predictions of widespread snow, freezing temperatures and gusty winds.
(7) While temperatures this past week have been relatively mild, it’s the gusty winds and the dry conditions that continue to allow wildfires to grow rapidly.
(8) This year’s marathon day dawned gusty, cloudy and wet, but that did not deter the crowds.
(9) Of greater interest is the statistical documentation of temporal associations between short-term increases in daily mortality and certain weather situations corresponding to the transitional periods of turbulent atmosphere with below normal air temperatures, strong gusty winds and a drop in relative humidity, i.e., conditions accompanying the intrusion of a winter cold wave.
(10) It makes a gusty walk along the prom at a British resort seem a bit tame.
(11) Little wonder that on a gusty, wild evening at Wembley there was an undeniable edge of bleakness to the occasion before kick-off, only partly counterbalanced by the genuine warmth among the flags and scarves dotting the walkways as an 80,000 crowd funnelled itself into the stadium.
(12) If your hurricane plans got a little dusty because of the light hurricane season, now is a good time to update them.” Even if Joaquin does not make landfall, forecasters warn that it could produce heavy rains, gusty winds and coastal flooding.
(13) The coal-mining city of Donetsk where pro-Kremlin protesters declared a people's republic last week experienced "gusty wind, possibly the wind of change" caused by a cyclone from the region of Black Sea where the peninsula of Crimea is based, he said.
(14) Forecasters said some rain was possible in both fire areas on Sunday as well as gusty winds.
(15) Gusty winds quickly drove the flames through 800 acres of brushy ridges near Glendora.
(16) Combined with gusty winds, these temperatures will result in life-threatening wind chill values as low as 60[F] below zero [51C below zero].
(17) The National Weather Service warned of “gusty winds” in the north-east – up to 30mph – which it said would cause “wind chills to plummet”.
(18) His audience, beginning to tug their wraps around them against the gusty wind, had had nothing, and they were given little more.
(19) Similarly, we should have taken a lead in wind turbine development, given the gusty meteorological conditions of these islands but again we fluffed the chance.
Gutsy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
(2) It was a gutsy act that went down well in Scotland.
(3) It was a gutsy call from Kelly to go for it there rather than taking the easy field goal, but also an important one.
(4) It has to be cooked with ingredients that are equally gutsy and capable of standing up to its intensity.
(5) Its gutsy flavour means tarragon goes well with other strong ingredients in a ravigote sauce: chop lots of tarragon, chives, chervil, parsley and watercress, and mix them with some chopped anchovies, capers and cornichons, then stir in some olive oil, a tiny splash of tarragon vinegar, a little lemon juice and a dab of Dijon mustard.
(6) The meta-narrative was gutsy stuff, but cautiously so.
(7) Sheer political cowardice has prevented either revaluation or the introduction of higher bands (other than in gutsy Wales).
(8) There’s still loads more to come.’” Danny Garcia beats gutsy Robert Guerrero to claim WBC welterweight title Read more
(9) The immigration minister, Peter Dutton, said Abbott “had been gutsy enough” to admit he needed to listen more, but had “not been given one news cycle of free air” and should be given a fair go.
(10) Except Bellows pushed it further and Stag at Sharkey's in particular established him "as a really gutsy, formidable force as a painter on the New York scene.
(11) When the action on the pitch finally started, a swashbuckling France took the game to Romania but failed to puncture their gutsy defence before half-time as the crowd began again to get edgy.
(12) Klaus Toppmöller's gutsy and in places gifted Bayer side never surrendered the belief that they could still stand the game on its head.
(13) Along with three other gutsy gastronomes, I am here to taste the results.
(14) Amazon's gutsy phone fails to ignite - CNET Jessica Dolcourt was less than impressed right from the off: What doesn't work is the premium price ($200 on-contract, $650 off; there is no pricing yet for the UK or Australia), the so-so performance, and the slightly sub-prime specs.
(15) These new documents show there is no doubt that Obama['s] White House was intensely interested in this film that was set to portray President Obama as 'gutsy'."
(16) It was an extraordinarily exciting, brave and gutsy recording (as I remember from the shock waves it caused among my school friends when we first heard it).
(17) Terry is captaining Chelsea week in, week out, with no obvious impact on his ability to put in the crunching tackles and well-aimed headers, plus the gutsy leadership on the pitch he is rightly renowned for.
(18) I was concentrating on Dalgliesh, and also by this point had Kate Miskin [Dalgliesh's sidekick], who's very like Cordelia – a gutsy girl from a deprived background.
(19) Bushnell was gutsy enough to disclose that even we serious, accomplished, feminist women spend a lot of time, when we are alone with our female friends, telling stories centred on the men with whom we are romantically entangled, exploring the quality of the love and attraction, the romance and the sex.
(20) 12.17am GMT Red Sox 1 - Cardinals 0, top of 1st Jonny Gomes is next, and he's stunned into submission on a full count curveball, which is kind of a gutsy call but it gets strike three.