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
It is difficult to tell from a distance in which direction the arrow of a wind vane points when the arrow lies obliquely to the spectator, or points directly towards or away from him.
From Things To Make by Williams, Archibald
