windmill

The owner of Wales' only working windmill has been ordered to return it to its original colour, after painting it red, white and green.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

But Sophie Cunningham has let the state turn her into a combination of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, willing to joust with a windmill.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

He made a side-to-side move at the rim on his penultimate attempt, then sprinted the length of the court and soared for a windmill jam on his last effort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

“My goal is to not let any windmill be built.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

In the distance he saw the windmill where he and Josiah had chased the spotted cattle after they had wandered through the Acoma fence.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

In the company’s Tampa, Fla., offices, a poster of Don Quixote, the fictional knight who tilted at windmills, hangs on the wall, with a smaller portrait of Wray in the corner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

For Cunningham’s supporters, it doesn’t matter that her opponents, as in “Don Quixote,” are not fierce giants but windmills posing no threat.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

Many technologies can generate low-frequency noise, including ventilation systems, heat pumps, road traffic and windmills.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

Fure said Kingston Cemetery, which "should be a place of natural peace, dignity, and reflection", was now home to cellophane wrappers, plastic plant pots, broken ornaments, artificial flowers, windmills and litter.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

As we have seen, the first mechanical clocks date to the late thirteenth century, and their geared machinery derived from water-wheels and windmills.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

They stomped their feet, windmilled their arms, filling the dance floor with a cyclone of moving bodies.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

He windmilled his fist as the crowd exploded.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021

He slipped and windmilled his arms to regain his balance, which made him think about how humans balance ourselves.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021

Dark-eyed, dressy little town dolls and dutch-bobbed blondies from windmilled countrysides.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019

At first, Billy windmilled his arms, hoping to find it by luck.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Bae caught teammate Jason Delay chugging toward home and third base coach Mike Rabello’s right arm windmilling.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

In the first few minutes he was windmilling his arms to get Chelsea's fans behind their team and he was animated throughout.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023

There was the shooting guard pushing the pace on a fast break, levitating, windmilling, lighting up the gym.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2022

Now, in Linares, Dominguín played to the crowd right away with ostentatious stunts, dropping to his knees in the sand and windmilling his cape as the first bull he faced leaped by.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2022

Colin began by employing a strategy he'd just invented called the “windmill,” which involved windmilling his arms around to keep his attacker at bay.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green