wind vane
Example Sentences
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For decades, this state was a reliable wind vane of American politics.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2021
Saint-Gaudens added a flowing cloak of copper sheets, so she could act as a wind vane as well, and up she went on the Garden tower, to twirl on a swivel before the prevailing breeze.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sea's fury wrecked the automatic steering device that Chichester had rigged up by linking a wind vane to the rudder with a series of pulleys.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like a wind vane waiting for a gust to come along and spin it round.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
The wind vane left here in the spring shows a predominance of wind from the S.W. quarter.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
