windsock

Example Sentences

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For one of McKay’s major numbers, a blow-up windsock man you might see promoting a business on the side of a freeway was an unexpected inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2024

"The airport’s windsock was horizontal and the aircraft was being rocked from side to side by the wind," Thomson added.

From Fox News • Feb. 23, 2022

Automation soon eliminated Mabel’s job as the airport windsock.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2021

As Booth approached the canyon, he took note that other parked helicopters were pointing different directions and saw a windsock “waving like a waffle.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2021

A windsock at the end of the field, swollen with moderate gusts, pointed like an absurd finger past the control tower and to the far runway.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy