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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "upwind" in a sentence

    upwind example sentences

    upwind


    1. It must obviously be somewhere upwind, but other than that, who knew? Finally giving up, he mounted the bike and headed uptown


    2. We have a favorable breeze; the elk are upwind from us


    3. It was in Speckenbüttel, the posh suburb upwind of Bremerhaven and only two streetcar stops away from the American Officers’ Club


    4. He had scented the Indian though upwind from him; he had a lot of learning to do about his extraordinary gift


    5. This placed her upwind of Siri and the waves of ammonia that washed over Siri’s keen sense of smell, almost made him retch as she continued her chatter


    6. ‘Seriously Will, I’ll hold the boat on-station, upwind of them, while


    7. She laughed and screamed and claimed that she felt like she was flying as she hung her slender body way out from the upwind hull


    8. Then, suddenly, as if by magic, a rare warm air bubble, a small punchy coastal thermal let go off the ground from a sunny, hot pocket in the valley below, pretty much directly upwind of Glenn


    9. engines being heard from upwind, the lead helicopter pilot carefully calculated his glide


    10. During the mid-shift break, they moved as far upwind from the cavern as their captors would allow

    11. A fox trying to catch a rabbit usually creeps upwind under cover -- perhaps through a patch of woodland to the edge


    12. They approached very quietly, upwind from the north


    13. But there is a picnic table upwind that gets nice sun, and if you stare directly at the river, you can ignore the other crap


    14. Gases cannot usually be seen and safety is gained only in fresh air upwind of them, or with a respirator


    15. But we heard a coyote howl upwind and we heard a cow bawling for her late weaned bairn


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    Synonyms for "upwind"

    upwind weather against the wind into the wind leeward

    "upwind" definitions

    towards the side exposed to wind


    away from the wind


    in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing