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Example sentences for "upwind"

Lexicographically close words:
upturns; upward; upwardly; upwards; upwelling; ura; uraeus; uranic; uranium
  1. The lashing at the apex had carried away and the poles upwind were almost flat.

  2. After lunch it was necessary to retrace our way upwind to get out of the rough country.

  3. One man crawled into the tent, and, at a given signal, the other two raised the peak while the former held on to the upwind leg and kicked the other legs into place with his feet.

  4. I was the upwind wheeler and had to hitch on to the side of the sledge to reduce the leeway as much as possible.

  5. When CPS systems are not available, the clean treatment area is located upwind 30 to 50 meters of the contaminated work area.

  6. Establishing the clean treatment area 30 to 50 yards (meters) upwind of hot line, when CPS is not available.

  7. The recon unit collects control samples of soil, water, and vegetation from areas about 500 meters upwind of an alleged attack area.

  8. Breed tacked back and forth across the wind, caught it again and held it, following the ribbon of scent upwind as easily as a man would follow a blazed trail through the timber.

  9. Breed one day caught the scent of a coyote upwind from him.

  10. If the menace was upwind and within reasonable distance, his nose detected it.

  11. Accumulations of sediment blown by the wind into a mound or ridge, dunes have gentle upwind slopes on the wind-facing side.

  12. Sand grains move up the dune's gentle upwind slope by saltation and creep.

  13. Oval or circular mounds that generally lack a slipface, dome dunes are rare and occur at the far upwind margins of sand seas.

  14. Illustration: Wind-blown sand moves up the gentle upwind side of the dune by saltation or creep.

  15. It fell to the ground directly upwind from Calhoun.

  16. Smoke from the flung bomb upwind barely swirled around him and missed Maril altogether.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upwind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.