English example sentences with "winds"

Learn how to use winds in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

Strong winds stripped the tree of its leaves.

They say we're going to get high winds.

The strong winds were blowing.

The rescue flight had to reckon with strong winds and freezing temperatures.

Winds from the sea are moist.

Strong winds accompanied the rain.

Besides the rain, we experienced heavy winds.

The river winds through the forest.

The stream winds through the meadow.

This vine winds around trees.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Not only were there strong winds yesterday, but also it rained heavily.

The path winds through the woods.

Winds haunt the village.

She always winds up a conversation with a wave of her hand.

The house was carried away by strong winds.

Cold winds blow hard every winter.

Winds from the sea are humid.

Hurricanes are storms accompanied by winds that can travel at 74 miles per hour.

A typhoon hit Tokyo on Wednesday with strong winds and heavy rains stopping public transportation.

The roof was torn off due to the strong winds.

The eagle is the queen of the winds.

On either side of the Equator the prevailing winds blow in opposite directions. Shifting of the boundary north and south creates the monsoon.

And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

Strong winds are expected.

Cumulonimbus are a dense and vertically developed cloud that produces thunderstorms. The cloud can bring heavy showers, hail, lightning, high winds and sometimes tornadoes.

Dust Devils may look like tornadoes, but dust devils are not formed by thunderstorms and do not drop from the sky. Dust devils are caused by swirling winds that rise with the warm air found over the ground.

God protects me from winds and storms.

Gusty winds are making travel hazardous for high profile vehicles.

Strong winds can blow away unsecured items.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

There are four seasons to Heaven: spring, autumn, winter and summer. Winds, rains, hoarfrost and dew - none of them is bereft of educational implications.

There is a lovely country; it stands with wide beeches near a salty eastern beach, near a salty eastern beach. It winds through rolling hills, its name is old Denmark, and it is Freja’s hall, and it is Freja’s hall! Our old Denmark must remain as long as the beech mirrors its top in the blue waves, its top in the blue waves.

Everything always winds up being my fault, doesn't it?

The walls of the palace were formed of drifted snow, and the windows and doors of the cutting winds.

It's an area where winds gust at over eighty miles an hour.

Winds in this area gust at more than one hundred miles an hour.

You're not the only one Dan winds up.

The Martian atmosphere is composed of over 95% carbon dioxide. Solar winds carry the thin, weak atmosphere away because Mars has a weak gravitational and magnetic field.

Saturn's atmosphere has winds which can blow at over 1800 kilometers per hour.

The rapid rotation of Uranus causes winds up to 600 kilometers per hour to blow in its atmosphere.

Neptune has winds in its atmosphere which blow at over 2000 kilometers per hour!

As the comet gets closer to the Sun, the coma grows. The solar winds push the dust and gas away from the coma causing them to stream off into space to form the comet's tail.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer provided information about physical conditions in the central regions of distant galaxies that may contain black holes. It also provided scientists with more knowledge of the physical conditions in very hot stars, the effect of solar winds on the atmospheres of the planets in our solar system, and the loss of mass from stars when stellar winds and flares occur.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer provided information about physical conditions in the central regions of distant galaxies that may contain black holes. It also provided scientists with more knowledge of the physical conditions in very hot stars, the effect of solar winds on the atmospheres of the planets in our solar system, and the loss of mass from stars when stellar winds and flares occur.

The cold winds froze my skin and hollowed out my soul.

Mary told Tom to behave himself at the party this time. Last time they'd gone out he had thrown decorum to the winds, and she didn't want to be embarrassed by him again.

And Santa Claus thought that was the greatest pleasure in life: for he loved to have enormous fires in the great fire-places, and the colder it was, the bigger fires he would have, and the louder the winds roared around his chimney.

Siberian winds can cause overnight frosts.

The transmitter on Voyager was not reachable due to solar winds.

The average speed of the winds remained constant.

The sea and the winds destroyed the boat: let the storm bear the blame and not my goats.

Philetas, the judge, having to render his sentence, swore by Pan and the Nymphs, that neither Daphnis nor his goats were in fault, that only the sea and the winds could be accused, and that they were not under his jurisdiction.

Imagine waking up every day to hurricane-force winds of 200 miles per hour sweeping across the planet, or harmful sulfuric acid rain falling on a scorching hot planet! These kinds of wild weather are routine occurrences on some of our solar-system planets and moons.

Powerful winds on Earth can uproot trees, toss over cars, and destroy houses.

Every single day, 200-mile-per-hour winds whip around Jupiter.

Strong winds can kick up dust storms in dry regions, such as the Sahara Desert.

The storm packed winds of 100 to 140 miles per hour, toppling homes and causing widespread flooding.

If you really want a place that harbors life, then Earth is it. Our planet is neither too hot nor too cold. It has fierce storms and winds, but not at the extremes seen elsewhere in the solar system.

It has been said there is nothing appertaining to life upon the broad plain. That is hardly true. Looking down from the Sierra Blanco, one sees a pathway traced out across the desert, which winds away and is lost in the extreme distance. It is rutted with wheels and trodden down by the feet of many adventurers. Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali. Approach and examine them! They are bones: some large and coarse, others smaller and more delicate. The former have belonged to oxen, and the latter to men. For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside.

In the mountains, the bristlecones face high winds and extreme temperatures.

Construction site toppled by strong winds.

Just as weather varies on Earth, occasionally bringing thunderstorms and gusty winds, the ever-changing Sun sometimes hurls massive clouds of solar material and magnetic fields into space, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.

The strong winds knocked down a lot of tree branches last night.

People and winds change quickly.

The path winds along the road.

"She herself hurled the swift lightning bolt of Jupiter from the clouds, scattered the boats, and overturned the seas with the winds; she snatched him in a whirlwind while he was breathing out flames from his pierced chest, and impaled him on a sharp rock."

Turning over such things in her inflamed heart, the goddess came to the country of storm-clouds, Aeolia, breeding place of the raging winds.

Here in a vast cavern king Aeolus rules over the struggling winds and howling tempests, and restrains them in prison with fetters.

Those indignant winds grumble with a loud murmuring around the confines of the mountain; Aeolus sits in his high citadel, holding his scepter, and he soothes their spirits and tempers their rages: if he did not do this, they would surely snatch away seas and lands and the deep heaven itself, and sweep them off through the windy sky.

Juno then, as a suppliant, addressed him in these words: "Aeolus (for the father of the gods has granted you authority to calm the seas and to stir them up with the winds), a race hateful to me is sailing upon the Tyrrhenian sea, carrying Troy along with its conquered gods to Italy."

"Strike force to the winds, sink and overwhelm the ships; or drive them apart and scatter their bodies on the sea."

When he had said these things, he struck with reversed spear the side of the hollow mountain, and the winds, as a single column, race through the offered gate and blast the lands with a tornado.

They press down upon the sea and stir it up from the lowest depths, East and South and Southwest winds as one, thick with tempests, they roll the vast waves to the shores. There follows the shouting of men and the shrieking of ropes.

During the Age of Sail, the strong prevailing winds of the Roaring Forties propelled ships across the Pacific, often at breakneck speed.

Westerly winds are prevailing winds that blow from the west toward the east.

Westerly winds are prevailing winds that blow from the west toward the east.

Trade winds are winds that blow predominantly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.

Trade winds are winds that blow predominantly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.

While the Roaring Forties may be fierce, 10 degrees south are even stronger gale-force winds called the Furious Fifties. And 10 degrees south of the Furious Fifties lie the Screaming Sixties!

The horse latitudes are subtropical regions known for calm winds and little precipitation.

Early commerce to the Americas relied on the trade winds—the prevailing easterly winds that circle the Earth near the equator.

Known to sailors around the world, the trade winds and associated ocean currents helped early sailing ships from European and African ports make their journeys to the Americas.

The trade winds also drive sailing vessels from the Americas toward Asia.

Even now, commercial ships use "the trades" and the currents the winds produce to hasten their oceanic voyages.

Known to sailors around the world as the doldrums, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a belt around the Earth extending approximately five degrees north and south of the equator. Here, the prevailing trade winds of the northern hemisphere blow to the southwest and collide with the southern hemisphere’s driving northeast trade winds.

Known to sailors around the world as the doldrums, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a belt around the Earth extending approximately five degrees north and south of the equator. Here, the prevailing trade winds of the northern hemisphere blow to the southwest and collide with the southern hemisphere’s driving northeast trade winds.

Lake Erie is known for seiches, especially when strong winds blow from southwest to northeast. In 1844, a 22-foot seiche breached a 14-foot-high sea wall killing 78 people and damming the ice to the extent that Niagara Falls temporarily stopped flowing.

They, in the rock reverberant held fast, / moan at the doors. Here, throned aloft, he reigns; / his sceptre calms their rage, their violence restrains: / else earth and sea and all the firmament / the winds together through the void would sweep.

So spake the God and with her hest complied, / and turned the massive sceptre in his hand / and pushed the hollow mountain on its side. / Out rushed the winds, like soldiers in a band, / in wedged array, and, whirling, scour the land.

"Presumptuous winds, begone, / and take your king this message, that the sway / of Ocean and the sceptre and the throne / Fate gave to me, not him; the trident is my own."

"He holds huge rocks; these, Eurus, are for thee, / there let him glory in his hall and reign, / but keep his winds close prisoners."

Bare were her knees, and from her shoulders hung / the wonted bow, kept handy for the prey / her flowing raiment in a knot she strung, / and loosed her tresses with the winds to play.

"Thither we sailed, when, rising with the wave, / Orion dashed us on the shoals, the prey / of wanton winds, and mastering billows drave / our vessels on the pathless rocks astray. / We few have floated to your shore."

"... while fondly to Mycenae's land / we thought the winds had borne them."

"In doubt, we bade Eurypylus explore / Apollo's oracle, and back he brought / the dismal news: With blood, a maiden's gore, / ye stilled the winds, when Trojan shores ye sought. / With blood again must your return be bought; / an Argive victim doth the God demand."

So, when the tempest bursting wakes the war, / the justling winds in conflict rave and roar, / South, West and East upon his orient car, / the lashed woods howl, and with his trident hoar / Nereus in foam upheaves the watery floor.

Amid the waves is seen / an island, sacred to the Nereids' queen / and Neptune, lord of the AEgean wave, / which, floating once, Apollo fixed between / high Myconos and Gyarus, and gave / for man's resort, unmoved the blustering winds to brave.

"Come then and seek we, as the gods command, / the Gnosian kingdoms, and the winds entreat. / Short is the way, nor distant lies the land. / If Jove be present and assist our fleet, / the third day lands us on the shores of Crete."

So spake he and on altars, reared aright, / due victims offered, and libations meet; / a bull to Neptune and Apollo bright, / to tempest a black lamb, to Western winds a white.

Winds roll the waters, and the great seas rise. / Dispersed we welter on the gulfs. Damp night / has snatched with rain the heaven from our eyes, / and storm-mists in a mantle wrapt the light. / Flash after flash, and for a moment bright, / quick lightnings rend the welkin. Driven astray / we wander, robbed of reckoning, reft of sight. / No difference now between the night and day / e'en Palinurus sees, nor recollects the way.

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