Example sentences for: windmills

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

  • This landscape is no accident or happy coincidence but a living museum created in 1960, which has brought together a number of farmhouses, windmills, dairies, and barns — real agricultural buildings which would have been demolished had they not been relocated here.

  • Windmills are found everywhere, on tea-towels, T-shirts, or fridge magnets so that when you go the fridge to take out a slice of Dutch cheese (Edam or Gouda) you’ll be able to think back wistfully to your trip.

  • Ironically, the British occupation gave Guadeloupe’s economy a big boost: between 20,000 and 30,000 more slaves were transported in and new cane-grinding windmills built, all of which spurred the sugar trade to unprecedented prosperity.

  • Charles Peters made this very point in his "Tilting at Windmills" column in the Washington Monthly last May, but to no avail.


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