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get wind of
verb as in discover
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in hear
verb as in hear
verb as in hearken
verb as in scent
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Nefarious villains get wind of this and plot to rob the entire party.
“I get wind of this video on Instagram, and it changed my whole world,” she said, “because I had felt completely alone.”
While staying at a hotel in the British seaside resort of Bournemouth, they stumble across the witches — who have convened under the cover of a child-cruelty prevention charity — and get wind of their murderous conspiracy.
After Melanie and the MIS team get wind of the insidious pleasures to be had from Bliss, a new sex-enhancing drug that is quickly pulling countless users into its undertow, her remit expands into something much larger and more pernicious: stop Bliss from pulling every addict in America into its force field, thereby turning Health Net Secure into its own police state.
“But I couldn’t ask the Palace to find me one. Some courtier would get wind of my condition and leak it to the press and the next thing I knew my todger would be all over the front pages.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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