(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.
Musty
Definition:
(n.) Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books.
(n.) Spoiled by age; rank; stale.
(n.) Dull; heavy; spiritless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some 26 years later Laake can still recall every detail of the trial: his aching wrists cuffed behind his back; the musty smell of the courtroom; the steely voice of the young female judge.
(2) Ingestion by hens and broilers of specific chloroanisols present in some wood shavings used in poultry cages can result in a musty taste in poultry products.
(3) The commercial product may have a light-yellow to cream color with a musty odor (Hartley and Kidd, 1983).
(4) But going by the musty books lining the walls, it does look like this new incarnation might have more of an intellectual, introspective bent.
(5) The symbolism was not hard to fathom: here, cooed the pages showing candidates at home, was a bright, straightforward, modern party; an explosion of youthful colour along the musty, dark-wood corridors of traditional Spanish politics.
(6) Shattered skylights allow rain to fall inside and douse the musty hallways.
(7) Stay away from the courtyard rooms, which are darker and can get musty in the tropical heat.
(8) Stored in a musty room upstairs are thousands of historical posters and documents that he hopes one day to store in a national archive.
(9) Untreated PKU causes severe mental retardation, musty odor, hyperactivity, seizures, eczema and hypopigmentation.
(10) In common with most Arab countries, public access to official information in Egypt is almost nonexistent, with state archives buried beneath a musty web of security restrictions and a deeply entrenched government culture of destroying or hiding any records that could prove awkward.
(11) No one contracted the disease who had not something to do with this musty straw.
(12) Cultures of Penicillium expansum produce a musty, earthy odor.
(13) The women, who are here to promote their Girls Matter campaign, insist they can’t talk politics because they represent a charity and have to be neutral, but they can’t disguise their enthusiasm for this strange, musty old world.
(14) Moulds or fungi that grow in grains and seeds during storage and transport cause germination decrease, visible mouldiness, discoloration, musty or sour odours, caking, chemical and nutritional changes, reduction in processing quality, and form of mycotoxins.
(15) Both oct-1-en-3-ol and cis-2-octen-1-ol are thought to be responsible for the characteristic musty-fungal odor of certain fungi; the latter compound may be a useful chemical index of fungal growth.
(16) The characteristic non-specific uptake of dye from media into the colonies and their musty or earthy odour rendered them easily distinguishable from other organisms.
(17) Regal and robed, the justices of the US supreme court often cite musty edicts of centuries past and sheaves of legal reasoning accumulated over the decades.
(18) The saving grace is that he can present himself as a new broom, albeit with Augean stables rather than musty warehouses to be cleaned out.
(19) F. A. LINNIK (1938) noted that immediately before falling sick patients had been in close contact with musty straw.
(20) Updike typically gives us every beautifully rendered detail: the fall of morning light, the "musty cidery smell" of pine needles, the texture of the blanket they lie on.