veering wind
Example Sentences
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“That’s badly put: I feel writing the thing on the worktable should have the focus, and that awards should come like shifts in a veering wind, as gratifying surprises.”
From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2017
A veering wind made club selection difficult but Aiken doubled his overnight lead with several crucial long putts.
From Reuters • May 7, 2011
His foundry, on a veering wind, fouled the linens of North Boston as he cast ship gadgets, stoves, anvils, chimney backs.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the veering wind rallies them again, and again they sweep back over the vast expanse, and hill and valley, earth and sky, are obliterated in a second.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
Two-thirds of the city’s buildings were wood, and the summer had been excessively dry, while to make conditions worse a high and veering wind fanned the flames.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
