I have seen a windrow of these shells a mile long, but never found the animal and shell together, so easily are they disconnected.
After a hurricane I have found a windrow of them on the beaches.
Along the southern beaches, where the Physalia is common, their stranded hulks form after storms a windrow of mimic balloons which explode like torpedoes beneath the feet, as one strolls along the sands.
Again we see him sweltering in his sanctum, his hair like a windrow of hay, as he dictates something like this to his stenographer: "Your logic is good except that your major premiss is a case of being off to a bad start.
He was without a collar, his shirt loose at the neck, and his hair like a windrow of hay.
Three days had passed since that exciting night, and when they arrived at the spot where Bram had slept the spruce shelter was half buried in a windrow of the hard, shot like snow that the blizzard had rolled in off the open spaces.
It was a curiously formed "hog-back"--like a great windrow of snow piled up and frozen.
He came out upon the crest of a low ridge, and searched the forest with his eyes, hopeful that he might find again a rocky hollow equipped with dead leaves, or even a windrow matted with bushes and vines, but he saw neither.
The windrow led two or three miles to the northeast, and he walked all the way on the trunks, slipping lightly from tree to tree.
When completed it appeared like a windrow of freshly raked shrubs.
It appeared a crude windrow of dead-timber wreckage.
They turned at last from this windrow of trees, and presently entered a little prairie, where there was nothing to obstruct them.
It would take the shrewdest of the Wyandot warriors some time to pick up a trail that was lost for a full quarter of a mile, and he did not leave the windrow until fully that distance was covered.
To our left lay a windrow of snow such as you will see drifted into a sharp crest across a corner of your yard; only thiswindrow was twenty feet high and packed solid by the sun, the wind, and the weight of its age.
When the aerial was ready to hang up, Charley took a length of wire and made his way across the windrow and up a slender tree that stood on the farther edge of the opening.
At some time, evidently within a few months, for no brush had as yet sprung up, a hurricane had swept through the forest: and where it had passed lay a windrow of trees as flat as a swath of grain after the scythe has gone through it.
The windrow was several rods in width, and not a tree remained standing within that space.
The length of the windrow depends of course upon the amount of material which is ready, as well as upon the amount necessary for making up the beds for that distance.
The first island was long and narrow--a merewindrow of rock and sand breaking the force of the sea.
Industrial composters may have power equipment that simultaneously turns and sprays water, mechanically oxygenating and remoistening a massivewindrow every few days.
Five such turns, starting two days after the windrow is first formed, finishes the processing.
If the initial moisture content is between 60 and 70 percent, the windrow is turned every two days.
These days giant "U" shaped machines may roll down windrows at municipal composting plots, automatically turning, reshaping the windrow and if necessary, simultaneously spraying water.
If the moisture content is between 10 and 60 percent, the windrow is first turned after three days and thence at three day intervals, taking about four turns to finish the process.
Dave Campbell who ran the City of Portland (Oregon) Bureau of Maintenance leaf composting program said he has run tests for heavy metals and pesticide residues on every windrow of compost he has made.
Two deer have come into a little open space, around which the arms of the windrow stretch nearly all the way, and they have crouched there, where they will rest, indifferent to the nearness of the bear.
He was now a full partner in the partnership, and will and strength together made his faculties so keen that it would have been difficult for anything about the windrow to have escaped his attention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
