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Example sentences for: vane

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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 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.
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.
Here the sails and tiller match the windmill and its vane, orienting the fan to capture the transient wind and extract mechanical work.
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.