wind tunnel
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Choose a pair of foam wings — large or small — slip your arms through and stand in a life-sized wind tunnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
To investigate how nightjars fly, researchers studied the birds in a wind tunnel, recording their movements at different speeds and measuring the patterns of airflow left behind their wings.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
That geography turns the valley into a natural wind tunnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2026
Just over four years after starting that first placement at Williams, Sullivan is now a full-time wind tunnel systems engineer.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word