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Example sentences for: vane

How can you use “vane” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

As a simple example, consider again the tiny windmill mentioned above, consisting of a fan and a vane perpendicular to the fan.
Along a similar vane, a hardware clerk once told me that the brackets I needed were scarce as hens .
The bronze La Giraldilla weather vane on one of the fort’s towers — depicting a woman scanning the seas for her lost husband, an early Cuban governor — has been adopted as the symbol of the city and of Havana Club rum.
And it wasn’t until 1558 that the addition of the huge bells and a weather vane (Giralda in Spanish) in the form of a statue of a beautiful goddess representing Faith, raised the height to 98 m (322 ft).
The vane on the windmill in eect measures the direction of the wind and pivots the windmill such that its fan blades are perpendicular to the wind.