wind vane
Example Sentences
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The plane, an Airbus A321, had four damaged windowpanes, including two that were completely missing, as it took off from London Stansted Airport on Oct.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2023
Twelve-foot-long sheets of glossy, unfixed film hung like drying animal skins from the ceiling, “tanning” — her term — through the windowpanes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2022
Visitors are resigned to muffled conversations through windowpanes, and the only tickets out may be a trip to dialysis or an ambulance ride to the hospital — or something worse.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2020
When she returns home alone, she doesn’t go back to live in the house her father and mother built, but lets it melt away into the earth, the precious salvaged windowpanes included.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2020
His father could sense the rising wind, and besides, it would shake the loose windowpanes.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
