prevailing wind

Example Sentences

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His line-break helped Exeter apply the territorial pressure that led to Vintcent going over, with Slade superbly using the prevailing wind to kick a tricky conversion.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Yana Valachovic, a fire scientist at the University of California, said some of the spared houses were tucked away from prevailing wind currents so that embers didn’t hit them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

Agguttinni means "where the prevailing wind occurs" in the Inuktitut local dialect.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024

Do you have a prevailing wind direction in your yard?

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

The prevailing wind was westerly, as at Efrafa.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams