GUSTY in a Sentence

Learn GUSTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for GUSTY, such as:

1. And the wood was still, stiller, but yet gusty with crossing sun.
2. On sleeping, I continued in dreams the idea of a dark and gusty night.
3. Winds may be occasionally gusty from the northwest during the afternoon.
4. She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind.
5. The delicate little people must have heard me hammering in gusty outbreaks a mile away on either hand, but nothing came of it.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUSTY
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gusty
 a.  windy or stormy; given to sudden bursts of passion; excitable; irritable
Classic Sentence:
1  And the wood was still, stiller, but yet gusty with crossing sun.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  The delicate little people must have heard me hammering in gusty outbreaks a mile away on either hand, but nothing came of it.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
3  And at that I understood the smell of burning wood, the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar, the red glow, and the Morlocks' flight.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  Outside, the sky was gusty and overcast, and as Lily and Selden moved toward the deserted gardens below the restaurant, spurts of warm rain blew fitfully against their faces.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
5  She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIX
6  On sleeping, I continued in dreams the idea of a dark and gusty night.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Yet Hester was hardly safe in confiding herself to that gusty tenderness: it passed as suddenly as it came.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
8  At the end of the hall hung a tattered green curtain that swayed and shook in the gusty wind which had followed him in from the street.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
9  East wind and west wind together, and the gusty south-wester, falling prone on the sea, stir it up from its lowest chambers, and roll vast billows to the shore.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
Example Sentence:
1  Winds may be occasionally gusty from the northwest during the afternoon.