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How to use gusty in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective

Gusty means of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous. Example: “We could've spent today at the seaside if it weren't gusty.”

Examples of gusty by meaning

adjectiveCharacterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.

  • 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.2012, Adam Roberts, Jack Glass
  • The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.2016, Robert Ellwood, Introducing Religion

adjectiveBombastic, verbose.

  • “I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.1966, Jacob Morton Braude, Speech openers and closers - Volumes 1-4, page 53
  • From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.1987, Owen Chadwick, From Bossuet to Newman, page 21
  • Kingsley came back again, Leonard countered his reply, and so it went on, with personal insults buried in paragraphs of gusty rhetoric.2006, Victoria Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: A Biography, page 355

adjectiveWith gusto.

  • His lips, warm with his words, caught hers in a gusty kiss.1917, The Green Book Magazine - Volume 18, page 486
  • I give her a gusty wink.2004, John Cottle, The Blessings of Hard-used Angels, page 152
  • The prime aim of the Bondo dormitory is selection of marriage partners and they are free to have sexual experiences, but not, of course, intercourse, which the boys call with a gusty smile "breast play".2007, Prakash Chandra Mehta, Sonu Mehta, Cultural Heritage of Indian Tribes, page 31

More sentences with gusty

  • We could've spent today at the seaside if it weren't gusty.From the entry today
  • The crocus of this novel is gusty Professor Louis Delfontaine, quack doctor, showman, charlatan and man of parts.1937, Neil Bell, Crocus. From the entry crocus
  • Tiger Moths from the Reserve Flying Schools at Rochester and Cambridge competed with each other at formating in the gusty conditions, Rochester just winning.1949, The Aeroplane, volume 76, page 699. From the entry formate
  • For instance, repeated shaking can be hazardous—gusty winds uproot trees at speeds well below those of steady winds and at forces lower than those predicted by experimental winchings.2013, Steven Vogel, Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World, 2nd edition. From the entry winching
  • It was a gusty, rainy day, and the rolling white and grey clouds and the lines of haillike lances rode down the sky like a charge.1908, Eric Parker, Highways and byways in Surrey. From the entry haillike

Meaning of gusty

  1. adjective Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
  2. adjective Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.
  3. adjective Bombastic, verbose.

Full definition of gusty

Questions about gusty in a sentence

How do you use gusty in a sentence?
Gusty is used as an adjective. For example: “We could've spent today at the seaside if it weren't gusty.”
What is a short sentence with gusty?
“I give her a gusty wink.”
What does gusty mean?
Gusty means of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gusty (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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