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Sentences starting with wind

Wind and storm are far from pleasant, but I know even worse company. [10]

Sentences ending with wind

So time passed with the speed of the wind. [10]
The voyage began with a favourable wind. [10]
Ride on the wings of the wind! [5]
There was no wind. [2]
On the fifteenth, when young Rostov, in his dressing gown, looked out of the window, he saw it was an unsurpassable morning for hunting: it was as if the sky were melting and sinking to the earth without any wind. [2]
Farrar released the wheel and threw the Maria into the wind. [9]
Moment after moment went, and though I had danced beyond reasonable limits, I still seemed to get new strength, as I have heard men say, in fighting, they 'come to their second wind. [11]
The procession is well spread out and long; all its members carry lighted tapers, a good many of which are not lighted, having gone out in the wind. [4]
And then, when we had cautiously rounded a hummock at the top, my steel helmet was blown off--not by a shrapnel, but by the wind! [9]
The Maria's mainsail was up, and the jib was being hoisted, and her head was rapidly falling off to the wind. [9]

Short sentences using wind

How does the wind go? [11]
Before sunrise the wind changed. [10]
I heard only the wind. [5]
Something was in the wind. [4]
Luff!--bring her to the wind! [5]
It is not the wind! [5]
The wind does that. [5]
The wind has shifted! [10]
The wind was rising. [9]
The wind did blow something. [5]

Sentences containing wind two or more times

Then a rushing wind filled his ears like a moan of wind in the cliffs, a knell indeed--Oldring's knell. [13]
O, O, the wailing wind the night wind, The cold nest; I am alone. [11]
Well, we're bound to get on one another's nerves one way or another in this world when the east wind blows; and if it isn't the east wind, it's some other wind. [11]
It's the wind, the wind, maybe. [11]
I am glad the weather is changed; the return of the south-west wind suits me; but I hope you have no cause to regret the departure of your favourite east wind. [14]
The wind was southerly: it is what the deer call a dog-wind, having come to know quite well the meaning of "a southerly wind and a cloudy sky. [4]
The wind is rising, and the wind and I are rough playmates! [6]
The original wild ox noticed that with the wind in his favor he could smell his enemy in time to escape; then he inferred that it was worth while to keep his nose to the wind. [5]
Then the singing of the wind in the caves drowned the swift roar of rustling leaves; then the song swelled to a mourning, moaning wail; then with the gathering power of the wind the wail changed to a shriek. [13]
The west wind is hopeful; it has promise and adventure in it, and is, except to Atlantic voyagers America-bound, the best wind that ever blew. [4]

More example sentences with the word wind in them

The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage. [6]
Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
I'll tell only you and the wind that hears and runs away. [11]
A real reform would settle them once and for all, and wind up by giving us an alphabet that we wouldn't have to spell with at all, instead of this present silly alphabet, which I fancy was invented by a drunken thief. [5]
The Parson, you would say, was the east wind, and only his intimates know that his peevishness is only a querulous humor. [4]
These were the words: "They ride away with a waking wind, away, away! [11]
To sleep there with them, and awake in the night and hear the wind in the trees, and see the sparks fly up to the sky, is a perfect realization of all the stories of adventures he has ever read. [4]
The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
The wind, blowing with heavy, steady blast into his face, sickened him with enduring, sweet odor, and filled his ears with a hollow, rushing roar. [13]
The wind blew with equal force from both quarters, but on one side it blew on smoldering fuel, and on the other on overflowing and flaming stores. [10]
The southwest wind, with a whiff of the channel salt in it, blew the curtains at our backs. [9]
Saturday dawned clear, with a stiff March wind catching up the dust into eddies and whirling it down the street. [9]
A sloop yacht, with a ridiculously shortened sail, was coming in from the Narrows, scudding before the wind like a frightened bird. [9]
There's a stiff wind; there's a good stout spray, and the wind and spray should cool their hot souls. [11]
It was only wind, thought Venters. [13]
There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again. [11]
There was no wind, and the men choked in that motionless atmosphere. [2]
Something's in the wind, and I'd give a good deal to know what it is. [9]
The scorching desert wind which, during the Spring months, so often blows through the valley of the Nile, had risen, and though the bright blue sky which had been visible by night and day was still cloudless, it was veiled by a whitish mist. [10]
These gentlemen possessed wind which they had not wasted in processions. [9]
This was the wind which Mr. Jefferson had heard. [9]
The sharp, north wind which blew through the darkness did his aching head good, and still he racked his wits for some pretext to attract Hadrian from his labors, but in vain. [10]
A soft summer wind waved a little the long gray grass of the ancient resting-place, and seemed to whisper peace to the weary generation that lay there. [4]
But the northwest wind was blowing. [9]
A soft south wind was blowing, eating away the remaining patches of snow; the sky was full of fleecy clouds. [4]
A soft south wind was blowing, and all the air was drowsy with the hum of bees. [4]
The cold morning wind was blowing light mists over the absolutely barren shore. [10]
But however the wind veered, Grafton could steer a course. [9]
I meant to wind up with this latter great work, and then dismiss the subject for good. [5]
With a fair wind they might, with all canvas set--mainsail, foresail, jib, and fore-topsail--make Rozel Bay within two hours and a quarter. [11]
Voila, he can wind them all round his finger! [11]
In the sharp wind the trees shook themselves angrily free of leaves. [11]
Swift as the wind the long-limbed bays of royal breed bore the light vehicles over the uneven sandy road and the smooth highway toward the palace. [10]
Dry night and wind steady enough to require no change in sail; but this A.M. an attempt to lower it proved abortive. [5]
Sometimes a favorable wind sprang up, and we hoisted the sail. [9]
At last the wind sprang up and a cloud appeared--in the right quarter, too, and just at nightfall. [5]
Then with the wind soon came a shade and a darkening, and suddenly the valley was gray. [13]
Then a cold wind seemed to blow from the glacier above and killed all the summer. [11]
The early summer wind rustled in the forest, and the never ending song of the Great Falls sounded from afar. [9]
The sweet sage wind rushed in Venters's face and sang a song in his ears. [13]
A gale of wind only fed its strength. [11]
But now the wind of rumour has swept away his beautiful confidence also. [10]
She's in a wind now that's blowing her south of east. [5]
She heard the wind moaning in the cottonwoods and mice squeaking in the walls. [13]
The watch doesn't wind itself and doesn't regulate itself--these things are done exteriorly. [5]
Walking against the wind is one of the most dangerous kinds of exposure, if you are sensitive to cold. [6]
How could the wind have set one torch in the place of another, and moved lights or lanterns in a direction opposite to its violent course? [10]
But now the wind had fallen.... [9]
After sunset the wind had dropped. [2]
There was not wind enough for sails, but there were chopping waves, and swell enough to toss us about, and to produce bright flashes of light far out at sea. [4]
Occasionally the northeast wind comes down with whirling, howling fury, as if it would scoop villages and orchards out of the little nook; and the rain, riding on the whirlwind, pours in drenching floods. [4]
A puff of wind comes and ruffles the surface, so that he cannot see the fish. [4]
And then the wind changed, went back round the circle, reversing everything, like dragging a cat by its tail. [4]
Before sunrise a wind came from the northern spruces; the dawn was cloudless, fiery red, and the air had an autumn sharpness. [9]
There is a wind called Auster, another called Eurus, another called Septentrio, another Meridies, besides Aquilo, Vulturnus, Africus. [4]
And then a wind burst out of the east with a high mournful note, as from a great flute afar, filling the air with leaves and branches of trees. [9]
But see, the wind blows fair, and in my heart I have no fear of the end. [11]
There was no wind blowing--the candle had not even flickered when burning. [11]
While the west wind blew its tidings, filling his heart full, teaching him a man's part, the days passed, the purple clouds changed to white, and the storms were over for that summer. [13]
Nova a furious wind began to rush out from behind the waterfall, which seemed determined to sweep us from the bridge, and scatter us on the rocks and among the torrents below. [5]
With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
The storm of wind and rain that had swept down the ravine was not wilder than her passions when I left her with Justine in the dark night. [11]
Free as the wind and clouds, I followed the same road over which I had ridden with Leonhard, for in your country a war after my own heart was going on, and my future fortune was to be based upon my sword. [10]
True a flatboat will float faster than an egg shell and the egg shell might be blown away by the wind, but if under the same influence they would go the same way. [7]
Marchand spoiled his wife-run away with her up along the Wind River, eh? [11]
There are plenty who pretend they care, but it's only because they're sailing with the wind, and with your even keel. [11]
The enterprising group who have taken all the best seats in the bow, with the intention of gormandizing the views, exhibit little staying power; either the monotony or the wind drives them into the cabin. [4]
The ground was white with snow, and all the trees were bare except for a few frozen oak-leaves here and there, which shivered in the wind and somehow added to the desolation. [4]
The wind had whistled for a time, but it turned out to be only a squall. [9]
By some odd whim of the weather the wind had backed around into the east, gathering the clouds once more. [9]
The north-east wind which rose towards morning had floated them away, and Zeus, devourer of the clouds, had swallowed them up to the very last. [10]
That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side. [2]
There were days when no wind stirred anywhere, and the gorgeous sun made the little city and all the land round about a pretty silver kingdom, where Oberon and his courtiers might have danced and been glad. [11]
And one day, when a north wind had scattered the smoke and swept the sky, Howard followed her up the paths to the ridge's crest, where she stood like a Victory, her garments blowing, gazing off over the mighty billows to the westward. [9]
In the fair west wind I know the Mistress herself, full of hope, and always the first one to discover a bit of blue in a cloudy sky. [4]
All tidings the west wind blew from distance and age he found deep in those dark-blue depths, and found them mysteries solved. [13]
If a wind were to rise, I thought to myself, it would blow her away, and the little one with her. [10]
At last, here were the "wild, free sons of the desert, speeding over the plain like the wind, on their beautiful Arabian mares" we had read so much about and longed so much to see! [5]
Sea and shore were in a kind of truce, and the ocean south wind brought cool refreshment but no incentive. [4]
The window spaces were closed by wooden shutters, and whenever they moved with a low creaking or louder banging Hermon started and forgot everything else in anxiety about his invalid friend, whose suffering every strong wind brought on again, and often seriously increased. [10]
He caught at Wendling's shoulder, but felt him lifted and carried away, while he himself stood still in a screeching wind and heard impalpable water rushing over him. [11]
Only I hoped we'd be able to grease this thing along and slide it through the Senate this afternoon, before they got wind of it. [9]
On Sunday the weather broke in a violent storm of wind and rain, and at sunset, when it abated, there were portentous gleams on the hills, and threatening clouds lurking about the sky. [4]
And presently, as we stared, the note lowered and the wind was gone again, and there was the water tossing foolishly, and we lay safe amidst the green wreckage of the forest as by a miracle. [9]
To stay as we are, to refuse to take what is offered us, is to remain between wind and water. [9]
The curtain of water covering this entrance was blown back and forth by the wind, now leaving the platform dry and now deluging it. [4]
But seriously a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. [5]
Fortunately the wind was with them, else it and the palace also would have been burned that night. [11]
The weather itself was uneasy, tepid, with long spells of hot wind and dust. [9]
Not a sound was to be heard but the long-drawn howling of the wind, and now and then the flap of a strip of cloth torn from the velarium by the gale. [10]
A little wind was stirring, and the fog boiled up from the valley caldrons thicker than ever. [4]
A southerly wind was sending great rolls of fog before it as Mr. Swain and I, with Banks, crossed over to Kent Island on the ferry the next morning. [9]
At first it was only as though a wind stirred the air of dreams, then it was like the sounds that gather behind the coming rage of a storm, and again it was as though a night- prowler plucked at the sleeve of a home-goer. [11]
The north wind was now blowing so violently from the sea that it was difficult to keep the torches and lamps lighted. [10]
The great braggart was no better now than a wisp of grass in the wind, and it was more than homage that bent him to his knees as the Queen looked him full in the eyes. [11]
The waxing moon was mirrored like a silver column, now wavering and tremulous, now rent by the waves tossing under a strong southeast wind, and illumined the warm autumn night. [10]
Although the month was March, it was one of those wonderful still nights that sometimes come in the mountain-country when the wind is silent in the notches and the stars seem to burn nearer to the earth. [9]
The Bridgwater Merchant was high in the water, and her shot at first did little damage to the Maid of Provence, which, having the advantage of the wind, came nearer and nearer. [11]
That west wind was fresh, cool, fragrant, and it carried a sweet, strange burden of far-off things--tidings of life in other climes, of sunshine asleep on other walls--of other places where reigned peace. [13]
As the wind was every moment increasing, the skipper sheered away to allow plenty of sea-room between the boats. [4]

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