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Example sentences for: wind

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

This takes some of the wind out of the sails of John Cabot, the Venetian navigator who claimed Canada’s eastern seaboard for England’s Henry VII in 1497.
When the Anglo-Saxons wanted a word to express the activity of traveling in a ship powered by wind in sails, they saved themselves a lot of breath by forming the verb sail .
Burchfield (Oxford University Press); A Reporter's Life , by Walter Cronkite (Knopf); Alias Grace , by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday); and Whistle Down the Wind (National Theatre, Washington, D.C.).
I had a vision of an Indian face with long straight hair, blowing in the wind.
Or else he writes about strange, grief-stricken, lonely souls, perhaps half-mad, who seem to have been picked up like leaves by some inexplicable wind and blown around the world until they attach themselves randomly to the first unlucky person who comes their way.