Sentences with mistral
mis·tral
M m - Spring and summer can bring the hot, dusty sirocco wind from the Sahara to Malta, Italy and Greece, while France sometimes gets the strong mistral, and the ghibli blows across from north-west Africa towards Spain.
- Below me, vineyards, olive groves, and fields of lavender shudder in the mistral, the north wind that blows relentlessly for spells of three, six, or nine days, then evaporates.
- However, the mistral which has been particularly strong lately has blown one of the gates off its mountings.
- The mistral has killed all the land lines in his bit of France, he said.
- The mistral of the southern Rhône is one of the more notorious examples of this.
- Except when I was there the mistral - a heavy, gusty wind - blew five days running.
- The ruins of the castle remain atop the hill but provide little protection from the relentless mistral, which constantly whips through its now-exposed cavity.
- In Provence, he even appreciates the icy gusts of the mistral rattling the naked olive trees.
- It's warm to hot in the south and Corsica, but the mistral can blow fiercely in summer making Mediterranean seas too rough for diving.