windward
/ˈwɪndwəd/
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American sound/ˈwɪndwəd/
windward
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win - dward -> windward
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- ‘You place a capsule full of powder in the windward side of the propeller, slide the sleeve down to puncture holes in the side of the capsule, then suck hard through the sleeve.’
- ‘I spot a ten kilometer ridge line south of the road near Wandella forty kilometers from the goal at Rankin Springs and head into the wind to get on the windward side of it hoping to catch a thermal climbing up on it.’
- ‘Using sticky yellow polythene sheets, which are erected vertically on the windward side of the fields and nurseries, can help ward off these vectors.’
- ‘The location is typical of an Amerindian settlement in that it is located on the windward side of the island (a location more difficult for enemy landings due to the constant battering of wind and waves).’
- ‘On Bamboo Island, the coral on the windward side was mostly destroyed, but otherwise it was the perfect white-sand island I'd first seen 15 years before.’
- ‘Meanwhile, tactics aside, we still have to sail, and this consists of throwing our weight onto the windward side, cramming wetly against the rail, and moving across as smoothly and quickly as possible whenever Shirley calls a sudden tack.’
- ‘Thirty-one years ago, when Cyclone Bebe inundated Funafuti, its waves tossed coral rubble onto the windward side of the atoll, creating a rampart that still stands as the highest point on the motu.’
- ‘On the windward side of the Tetons and the Salt Range to the south, this large flat area hasn't been under water for at least twenty three years as the west continues to be dry.’
- ‘Rainfall is often heavy especially in the interior near the mountains and on the windward sides of the large islands.’
- ‘Indeed, sometimes the mountains and hills will make the clouds drop all of their rain on the windward side leaving little or no rain as the system moves across the rest of the country.’
- ‘On the eastern side is the Koolau Range, whose spectacular fissured cliffs front the windward side of the island.’
- ‘On the windward side of the island there are numerous narrow, powdery beaches and deserted rocky coves.’
- ‘The glides have been pretty reasonable up to this point, but suddenly I'm falling like a rock as I try to push into the hills to get under the clouds, thinking that I'm on the windward side of a spur.’
- ‘On calm days, dive trips go to the windward side of the island to search for large schools of pelagic fish: bronze whaler sharks, hammerheads, mantas and sometimes oceanic white tips.’
- ‘A temporary solution is to open a window to let in a little make up air, preferably on the windward side of the house.’
- ‘It is on the windward side of the island and so the full force of the Atlantic winds and waves sweeps in against it, pushing up a thirty-yard breadth of sand.’
- ‘Placed too high up on a sailboat's mast, the radar might miss seeing a nearby target on the windward side when a boat is heeled over.’
- ‘He said the Sea King helicopters on Manoora are vital in taking resources including police to the windward side of the island group.’
- ‘As the air moves up the windward side of the mountain it cools down, and again if the air becomes saturated then cloud is formed which, if below the top of the hills, gives fog.’
- ‘Mauka Makai Excursions offers archaeological and hiking tours of the windward side of Oahu.’
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