Barring a cloudburst or a violent sandstorm known locally as a devil duster, skies over the Sonoran desert here are dotted with planes.

And having seen the violent sandstorms raised against the D'Troit, he was reluctant to get too close for fear of losing the vessel.

There are occasional violent sandstorms that lift fine particles from the surface high into the atmosphere.

Scientists once thought that violent sandstorms accounted for the number and excellent preservation of fossils hereabouts.

On screen, the affair begins after the patient and Katharine are caught in a violent sandstorm in the desert (a scene that does not appear in the book).

Sixty years ago, a violent sandstorm uncovered an ancient tomb in the desert outside Cairo.

In the original version, the attack and murder derange the woman and she dazedly wanders into a violent sandstorm - to her death.

Han Chinese women here cover their heads and faces like Muslims to protect against violent sandstorms.

"Your brother and two other members of this colony are about to be bombarded with a violent sandstorm, and we can't reach them," Kirk said bluntly.

Assad then prays for Sulamith, during which time he is engulfed in a violent sandstorm.