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

The piazza’s beloved Campanile (Bell Tower), at 99 m (324 ft) is the highest structure in the city, for 10 centuries its belfry, lighthouse, weather vane, and gun turret.
As a simple example, consider again the tiny windmill mentioned above, consisting of a fan and a vane perpendicular to the fan.
The windmill’s vane will measure the direction of the wind and actually orient the windmill fan blades perpendicular to the wind.
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.