Definitions for sandstorm

sandstorm sand·storm

Spelling: [sand-stawrm]
IPA: /ˈsændˌstɔrm/

Sandstorm is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 511 anagrams from letters in sandstorm (admnorsst).

Definitions for sandstorm

noun

  1. a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).

Origin of sandstorm

First recorded in 1765-75; sand + storm

Examples for sandstorm

"sandstorm" warned the Desert Rat, and spoke quickly to the mozo in Spanish.

They had come to destruction, off the Great Desert, fleeing before a sandstorm.

In the first flurry of sandstorm, it had clogged, burned out and died.

No sandstorm ever fills up the hollows, or carries away the ridges.

She knew just what a sandstorm meant on the western prairies.

The best that I could hope for was being smothered in a sandstorm.

You told a tale of a sandstorm and of having been separated from two Indians you had employed.

But here we have the original home that used "sandstorm" for clubby Christmas light display in 2006.

They were dry from age, having probably been uncovered by a sandstorm.

In the late afternoon of the third day of our journeying we drove into a sandstorm.

Word Value for sandstorm
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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