(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.
Lusty
Definition:
(superl.) Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.
(superl.) Beautiful; handsome; pleasant.
(superl.) Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant.
(superl.) Lustful; lascivious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sure enough, the rowdy crowd in the Fox News audience gave him a lusty boo - the loudest of a rambunctious night and maybe of the entire primary season so far - while Gingrich called him "utterly irrational" for questioning the manner of Bin Laden's killing.
(2) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
(3) Each of these MgATP sites contains a peptide from one of the internal duplicated regions of the enzyme molecule, which have previously been suggested as containing MgATP sites (Nyunoya, H., Broglie, K. E., Widgren, E. E., and Lusty, C. J.
(4) The Swiss ping it around awhile, to a lusty chorus of "olé"s, led by the Brazilian contingent in the crowd I'll be bound.
(5) Could Fifty Shades of Grey, with a smart female director at the helm, usher in a new era of movies for lusty, grown-up women, even if its trashy reputation and wayward use of cable ties might not seem to be the fertile ground from which this might spring?
(6) 57 min After Zhirkov sees yellow for a typically lusty challenge, Sychev comes on to replace Saenko.
(7) 7.49pm BST 3 min: A lusty tackle by Bornw gives Karagandy a freekick some 40 yards out and a chance for the visitors to test whether Celtic have repaired their defence since last week.
(8) Since the catalytically active enzyme is a tetramer composed of four identical or closely similar subunits (Lusty, C.J., and Ratner, S. (1972) J. Biol.
(9) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
(10) Sequence analysis has revealed internal duplication within the synthetase molecule (Nyunoya, H., Broglie, K.E., Widgren, E.E., and Lusty, C.J.
(11) Hardcore taps into a 14-year-old boy’s brain, marinating in a vat of Mountain Dew, fantasising about high-energy kills, lusty women and loud music,” wrote Hoffman in September.
(12) Speeches calling for Britain to withdraw from the European Union were cheered with the lusty conviction that their dream of a divorce will turn into a reality.
(13) The Devils sat atop the UK box office chart for eight weeks, scandalising the masses with its tale of lusty priests and demented nuns in 17th-century France.
(14) In Sally's eyes, Tim is an irresistible bit of rough, dribbling with lusty physicality.
(15) Delafield, F. P. (University of California, Berkeley), M. Doudoroff, N. J. Palleroni, C. J. Lusty, and R. Contopoulos.
(16) Nasiri Bazanjani, the Iranian who cruised over the line seven metres ahead of the rest, also underlined the improvement in that country's performances at these Games and was greeted with lusty cheers as he received his gold.
(17) This has become a kind of Cannes tradition, a lusty whoop to get the proceedings under way, and it is invariably greeted with an affectionate ripple of laughter.
(18) Seen through the eyes of her sister, Elizabeth, she appears to be a vulgar, lusty hoyden, whose outrageous antics put all her sisters' reputations at risk.
(19) davidgray.com I’m getting oodles of eastern pride with lusty overtones of death or glory, I’m getting a spine of florid pomposity with top notes of Tom and Jerry, I’m getting Viennese marching music with a strong hint of moustache oil, I’m getting really bored, this thing goes on and on … Weighing in at a hefty five minutes, six seconds, this is officially the longest national anthem in the world.
(20) Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud gave the hosts the lead shortly before the hour mark but Romania levelled from the penalty spot, before Payet stepped up to arrow his shot into the top corner and prompted a lusty rendition of the La Marseillaise, sung as much in relief as in triumph.