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Sentence Examples When the wind kicks up, I feel as if I'm standing in a snowstorm of pods and pollen. But soon new seeds are carried in by the wind and on the fur of animals or in their droppings. Back in the cockpit he decided it was time to tack, but found the yacht would not point up into the wind. A blonde was scurrying across the parking lot, her hair caught in the updraft of the wind. The collective wisdom of cyclists is that the wind is always against you and that uphill slopes inexplicably outnumber downhill ones. An internal hinge, spring loaded with a rubber band, made the wings quiver in the wind, giving the illusion of a live brant. Where so long I have heard only the brattling and moaning of the wind, what means this tenser, far-piercing sound? Over the ledge lies an Atlantic of vapor without sail or shore, and through the hemlocks on North mountain the wind brattles like a hurricane. As the wind howled in the chimney, we sat on a sofa in front of a roaring fireplace. If there is an attack, leave the area and go upwind, or to the sides of the wind stream. For the flight experiments, two odour sources were placed at the upwind end of the wind tunnel. Does he seriously think that anyone believes we rely solely on the wind to light our streets? The bittersweet tang of pulverized sugarcane hung pungent in the breathless void of the wind. It was a beautiful day with the breeze of the wind blowing softly in her ear and the clouds floating softly by. His cape waved in the breeze and the wind hit his face, but he was careful not to let it hit his teeth. We can't catch the wind or see the breeze, but we can feel it, see its effects. The forest around them was busy with the sounds of chirping birds and the soft breeze of the wind. When she was about eighty yards from the shoreline she swung the boat head to the wind bringing it to. I sortie out to the riverbed and the sentries, who stand like dull rods in the wind. If not staked, the wind will often times break the somewhat brittle, sprawling stems at the base. Show More Sentences As one big sea washed us too far around back into the wind, with that weight of sail above, we broached. But at the same time, I saw a sea of clouds and heard the soughing of the wind in the pines. Her name sounded so lovely, so sweet, as it was carried on the wind by his voice. If the vang is on tight and the wind drops be sure to ease it to maintain good mainsail trim. An insistent whisper niggles at his mind, and for a moment, the wind dies down. Of course, the excitement is dependent upon the wind and lately it has been shifting between the customary north-easterlies and southerlies. Much will depend on the wind conditions which are expected to be light-to-moderate south-westerlies, suiting the smaller Asian frames. The same story unfolded at the Scardaun Falls where the wind whipped the spray off the Falls and back over the brow of the hill towards the lake. Plastic sheets temporarily hung from the rafters until a new door arrives don't succeed in blocking the wind, but a space heater helps. In reality, their makers are definitely of this land, for it is the wind and sand that have formed these strange offerings, called ventifacts. The Doc has walked the streets of the Second City during brutal winter days and has felt the wind whipping like barbed wire across his face. Then maybe you could be looking at plants that like a Mediterranean climate that enjoy the extra buffeting by the wind. In each cemetery there are two or three little flames dancing in the wind under soot-blackened glass. Residents here feel like they dodged a bullet even as the wind and the rain keeps pounding the island. Toby brought the dinghy under the cruiser's stern, spilling the wind as he did so. With his constant guidance and criticism, they do their best to fashion sails that are strong yet can spill the wind quickly. It's a fine day, the sun shining but the wind blowing spindrift sharp as staples. Setting a spinnaker involves keeping the boat steady with the wind behind while the spinnaker sail is raised. Her blonde hair whipped about her impassive visage as the wind dived past her and took cover behind the nearby hills. It was almost impossible to see out through the windscreen at times, with the wind gusting and the spray splashing up. Show More Sentences I sit here up in the hills and the sea and the air are voiceful, a seething and moaning of the wind and weather, cruel to listen to. At about eight or nine o'clock, as near as I could judge by the altitude of the sun, the wind rose suddenly and canted our barge on one side. I came from a small town, where the wind is fresh and cool, you could taste the air on your lips. There were serpents, spiders, box kites, ungainly human-shaped kites wobbling in the wind, to name just a few. This is because the snow is blown around in the wind, and it is hard to know the difference between falling and drifting snow. She might get tired of the buckboard ride, the swaying around in the wind and the dearth of heat in the winter. The ugliness stands out this morning, the snowdrifts soiled by what the wind has picked up from the fields. When we arrived in Chicago, there were 6ft-high snowdrifts and the wind was howling. His long snowy white beard, the same color as the fur that covered his body, swayed in the wind as he spoke. The try deserved a conversion and against the wind Peterson did the needful. Sure, the candle was snuffed out at one moment, but that could have been the wind. I lay with my arms wrapped tightly around my chest, listening to the shack moving in the wind, and animals snuffling outside. That night the rain continued to fall and the wind to blow a gale, but we were snug as a bug. Because he brought the sail up into the wind, the wind caught it and flipped it straight back onto the other side, and down on top of him. As it is, the wind is certainly howling and the snow is certainly blizzarding and the roads are unplowed, but if we had to get out to get somewhere, we could. The race has never been canceled, though it was shortened in 1981, when the wind chill factor dropped to 71 degrees below zero. He allowed that he does have a limit of 30 below, not counting the wind chill factor. Climate change increases the available energy, but reduces the wind shear, making the net result hard to predict. It's hard in the wind tunnel of fame and managers and fans and appearance fees. I could still smell burning plastic, though when the wind was blowing. Show More Sentences Listening to the songs of the nightingales and the rustling of the wind through the trees, he delighted in the sounds and smells of nature on that sunny afternoon. When the wind comes from the north, the ice is carried away, sometimes as far as the horizon, but a south wind presses the ice up against the shore. And if that's not enough, feel the wind in your hair on The Big One, Europe's tallest and fastest roller coaster that reaches a spine-chilling 85 mph on a 265-foot drop. By last night the wind had dropped to a southwester of about 10 knots. The night air was chilly and the wind blew a cold breeze under her hood. I was worried that the wind and water would take me in a south-westerly direction and I would therefore have to pass perilously close to 50 miles of coastline. It's traditionally formed of spinifex chipped out of the earth and made into a low wall, perhaps 18 inches high to protect you when you're lying down from the wind. A sharpening nip to the wind made me look south, where a familiar pearling of the sky and darkening of sea showed that the ferryman's prophecy was set to come true. Feeling the cold now, as the wind whipped across the flat ground, I pushed on, stepping into a deep cold puddle before crossing untouched snow on a wide patch of grass. Even so the wind swirled into the room, blowing small snowdrifts with it. Sometimes, when the sun is warm and the wind is relatively calm, we set a blanket down for a picnic. She barreled into me and brought me down, knocking the wind out of me. I picked up speed, making for the trees, vaulting a fence, catching my foot and falling flat on my face with a jolt that knocked the wind out of me. Though the wind was brisk and chilly, the sun was bright and warm. The sudden crack of canvas snapping in the wind halted his endeavours. The hurricane was two days away, but the wind was already blowing briskly. Inside clouds tiny vortices created by the wind spin water-sodden dust particles into clusters, where they meld to form raindrops, say the authors. The river banks were splashed with the colour of wild flowers, and all was still and silent, barring the whisper of the wind and the occasional raucous call of a bird. One hopes that Hawaii's new system will not be in existence that long, but don't be surprised if legislators continue to ignore the free market and spit into the wind. Yes, but I don't want us to broach to and go over if the wind shifts. Show More Sentences You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit in the wind, you don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Fairfax. The dog scratched and padded around the place and pushed his dish across the kitchen floor tiles, but otherwise it was so quiet you could hear the wind soughing in the firs. Sometimes seeds were simply broadcast in the wind over barren areas. It was clear people saw the memorial as a portal to the next life, a way to reach their lost loved ones on the wind. Amazingly you don't get buffeted by the wind even when you drive fast. The two figures stumbled across the dunes, buffeted by the wind and sand. Puffins, notable for their high wing-loading, may have also had more difficulty maneuvering during foul weather when the wind tended to blow upslope. If they must, they could turn the wagons broadside to the wind and use them for cover, and their felted tents and sleeping sacks would keep them from freezing to death. When the weather was dreich and the wind blowing from the east, it was the best place in town to hide away. After the break Crown were playing downwind but the strength and gustiness of the wind did little to help them. As the atmospheric model tends to underestimate extreme wind speeds, the wind is adjusted using simulated gustiness. Two displaceable white shields can be fixed in the supportive aluminium frame of the wind tunnel to prevent unintended optical stimulation of mosquitoes during experiments. We focused on arroyos or scarcely populated stands of pinyons and junipers, places where these wild creatures may have taken refuge from the wind. Examples from Classical Literature This is the pampero, the south wind, the wind from the Pampas, which blows straight from the frozen tops of the Andes. The morning was gray, the peaks hidden in clouds, and the wind chill as the women came from their beds. The maximum velocity of the wind registered at Port Blair on the latter occasion was 111 miles. The personage was also of a portliness, and the collision had knocked the wind out of him. The purpose that was in them broke into a wild war-music, as the wind harp swells and screams under the breath of the storm. When we opened the window, the wind blew in on our faces in parching gusts. There was not a sound save the whine of the wind in the wires as the plane sped on. Thus as they parle, before they be aware, Perhaps a Pursuivant slips in behind, And makes 'em run like hares before the wind. Protagoras will reply that the wind is hot to him who is cold, cold to him who is hot. The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the windowpane are my Children. But before I found them I encountered a windlestraw which showed which way blew the wind and gave promise of a very gale. With this a little wind is added from the wind machine, and the rain effect is sometimes worked simultaneously. Swinging went the pendulum in the window, and the wind roared in the chimney. At that moment he heard the whistle of a train, and between the whirs of the wind he heard the tinkle of the signal bell. But the wind rose, and the surf dashed so violently upon the muddy banks, that a landing could not be effected. As they were paddling slowly down the bay, the wind rose strongly against them. He pondered it on his way back to the street-car, as he struggled against the wind. The phantasmic groupings of the young brain are very like those we see in the skies, and equally the sport of the wind. Behind her, like a mantle streaming in the wind, the white flight of pigeons follows her movements. If a balloon has a propelling apparatus it may move against the wind, or it may outspeed the wind. Show More Sentences But to turn the platform on its side and let the wind spin the propellers was pointless. Had not the wind been at their backs, whistling from the north, the passage of pogey Notch would have proved a savage encounter. He stood for a while by the window watching the rain splash against it and the wind shake the trees as if it meant to uproot them. Could that winglike envelopment be her gray woollen shawl, tossed by the wind? I'll bet the wind takes the hide off of a feller up here in the wintertime. He saw the gate of a woodyard open and went in to get out of the wind which swept the bleak broad thoroughfare. When the windchest has received the air, these valves will stop up the openings, and prevent the wind from coming back again. Nelson left the Gulf of Palmas as soon as the wind served, which was on the 9th of March. Is the putrefaction of my filthy old carcase on the wind yet? We may outdistance him a few yards, but a lot depends on the wind. The man who gets a windfall spends his days watching the wind. A little shiver of sweet sad sounds came from the wind harp. A little shiver of sweet, sad sounds came from the wind harp. Now, as we drew nearer and nearer, the wind rose constantly. In the evening the wind rose, and the sloop moved down the loch. As the morning progressed, the wind rose higher and the river widened. He wondered if it was the wind that was blowing the disease away and cleansing the pestilential land. Guatemala's Disaster Response Office said that ash could spread over Guatemala City because of the direction of the wind. In the tops of the trees the wind began to play, disturbing the sleeping birds so that they flew about calling plaintively. Then the wind blew in a changed spirit, and died away to a zephyr. Show More Sentences The Parian cup in Mabel's hand shook like a lily in the wind. He had probably been knocked down by the wind of a passing shot. That mysterious paper currency which circulates in London when the wind blows, gyrated here and there and everywhere. Oh, we have sophisticated computing power and models and loss dodecahedrons, but the wind blows and half the companies fall down. Then the helm was put down, and she payed off before the wind again. As the wind was south-west, we sailed straight for Penzance. The crew hung in the wind, but he addressed them peremptorily. Pluck up your courage, and we'll let Townleys and MacNairs whistle their mouldy feuds down the wind while we sail southward in The Fair Lady. I had not known how to do it well, not understanding how the wind would set when we were out of the harbour. Luckily the wind carried him past the place where they were picnicking. The post chaise which bore Frdric Parisward went like the wind. She had put back for England on account of the wind and the distance. She had not merely been swayed by the wind that worsted him. Notwithstanding the distance, and the noise of the wind and sea, one heard distinctly the loud strokes of the animal's tail, and even its panting breath. Our grandmothers threw their caps over the mills, of course, but, by Jove, their granddaughters only throw their caps over mills that can raise the wind for them. Either the mist was not out again yet, or the wind had dispelled it. Also, they shouted at us like mad to heave to into the wind, for they took it as some drunken prank on the part of scow-sailors, little dreaming that we were the fish patrol. The deserted boat was in the trough of the sea, rolling drunkenly across each comber, its loose spritsail out at right angles to it and fluttering and flapping in the wind. Then they darted around her bow and began the row down her port side, and we tacked about, crossed her bow, and went plunging down the wind hot after them. Find more words! 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