Words similar to vane

Example sentences for: vane

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

Along a similar vane, a hardware clerk once told me that the brackets I needed were scarce as hens .
As a simple example, consider again the tiny windmill mentioned above, consisting of a fan and a vane perpendicular to the fan.
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).
Here the sails and tiller match the windmill and its vane, orienting the fan to capture the transient wind and extract mechanical work.
Most agree that he's a Clinton-style "weather vane," adapting his positions to the demands of contrary constituencies ranging from the army to foreign investors to Western diplomats.