windmill
Example Sentences
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But he’s more of a Don Quixote tilting at windmills because his solutions amount to the same level of self-delusion.
From Salon
In laying out the workings of a traditional Dutch windmill, for instance, he conjures a fictional miller, “a congenial fellow” who “knocks out his pipe on the door frame” before getting to work.
There will be illustrator residencies in London's oldest surviving windmill and free public gardens.
From BBC
If AI turns out to be garbage, they’ll still have functional power plants and we’ll still be arguing about whether windmills cause cancer.
From MarketWatch
His enthusiasm for windmills seems to come from a grand vision of coastal liberalism, not the energy needs of his state.
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