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How to use windmills in a sentence

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As a young married man, my grandfather traveled around West Texas building windmills for a living.
Another concern for us when building windmills in Fengxian is the local tourism industry.
Two reclaimed strip coal mines in Somerset County are now dotted with windmills that produce pollution-free power.
The new generation of windmills is going up on former rangeland, exhausted oil fields, reclaimed coal mines and old farms.
I know George would probably respond that we should reduce economic growth instead of building windmills, but there are two problems here.
It consists of 450 windmills with sufficient capacity to power 70,000 homes.
Hopefully, their officers will fall into line, tackle the real issues of the GAA and stop tilting at windmills.
Conditions were even unfavorable for the large-scale use of wind power, though some windmills were established.
Solar panels and windmills provide heat and light, while openings in the houses are rotated to preserve the grass from erosion.
Today the windmills are taller and sleeker and called wind turbines, and use the wind's energy to generate electricity.
Salt farms and gristmills dotted the coastline, their windmills tapping the sea breezes for energy.
There is a huge bridge stretching to Denmark, and giant windmills turning in the middle of the sea.
If one becomes reliant on windmills, as the Danish have found out, one then has to have backup thermal stations for when the wind is not blowing.
He was an outstanding engineer who advised on building windmills, locks and ports.
I am sure he would have dealt with the evils of nuclear power and the need to convert now to windmills.
On either side of her rose hills covered with vineyards and the gently rotating white sails of the windmills used for crushing grapes.
Lighthouses, for instance, have a certain romance about them, and Dutch windmills are considered highly picturesque.
Clocks told the time, windmills ground corn, cranes lifted things and so on.
Today's windmills are entirely computerized, with sensors that allow them to turn into the wind to harness energy as efficiently as possible.
From the seventh century on, peasants designed and built adobe horizontal-vaned windmills to harness the wind power and grind wheat into flour.
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And as the weather was so fine, I laid it all out in paper windmills to sell to the kids on 'Amstead 'eath.
All along the way the only sound to be heard was the whirring of the arms of the windmills.
He did not, like the crowd of school-boy artisans, construct little windmills on the angle of a barn or watermills across the neighboring brook.
The windmills are presented as various forms of pinwheels that spin with a gentle blow of air.
Between Schiedam and delft I observed the windmills with great attention.
Alternative accommodation can be found in structures converted from their initial purposes such as forts, lighthouses, windmills and cabooses.
Schiedam, with its windmills, is well within sight of Rotterdam.
A private firm had been permitted to set up windmills at the spot in the Western Ghats, in violation of rules.
Many international tourists still come to the Netherlands to see the exceptional icons, such as Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Dutch cheese, windmills and tulips.
The hunter agreed and went with him, and they came to seven windmills whose sails were going round quite fast, and yet there was not a breath of wind, nor was a leaf moving.
You could wander along the canal till you came to broad green fields, with windmills here and there, in which cattle, black and white, grazed lazily.
By us ordinary mortals of a mediocre animus that is only too anxious to pass by wicked giants for so many honest windmills, adventures are entertained like visiting angels.
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