weathercock

Example Sentences

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No matter where we find ourselves in these stories, the author’s mind, and thus the reader’s, seems turned like a weathercock toward Homewood.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021

Finally the winds of evidence blow up from a totally different quarter and point the weathercock of circumstance toward the least expected actor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Part is uneasy: a weathercock whines; people tell their dreams; once Mr. Dunnock stuffs his beard quickly into his mouth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harriman reacted to the New Deal like a weathercock in a gale.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a flagstaff in the garden, and on the roof was a gilt weathercock shaped like a telescope.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers