How To Use Downwind In A Sentence
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The clouds were streeting up as the wind was strong and we just had to go downwind to get to goal.
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By then, children and others living in downwind areas were beginning to develop leukemia.
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Every hair on his body stood up and he started slowly circling the deke in a wide arc, first along the far side, then round to the near, and eventually straight downwind of the imposter, not 5 yards from the base of my tree.
Hurteau: Help Me Score This Buck
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A sail blows off the foredeck and a spinnaker drum jams so they can't jibe on the downwind leg.
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On the downwind leg to a dan-buoy at Henholme, Pilgrim managed to get an inside turn on Liberty and rounded in second.
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The fumes wend their way downwind for a week or more, whichever direction the wind is heading.
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Day 1 was stormy, rain cells dumping near launch and downwind, north winds aloft.
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Therefore, any beneficial effect of reactor shutdowns may apply only to the closest downwind counties.
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Start from a vertical climb directly downwind.
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After tracking in the frost awhile, I sat downwind and across a ravine from a doe and two fawns.
Everyday Enlightenments
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Is “radioactive externalities” the code word for a $Trillion loss of downwind property if a core meltdown occurs and a steam explosion breechs the containment building?
Matthew Yglesias » Not in Vermont’s Back Yard
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I am downwind of the stream, downstream of the mountain.
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They are found in regions of limited sand supply and unidirectional winds, resulting in relatively small and highly mobile stores of sand migrating in a downwind direction.
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We even skip the 2:15 start time given our ability to stay put and not get blown downwind.
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If you are downwind when the whales blow, there is no mistaking the content of their gargantuan diet.
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He waited until the Cormorant stabilized dead downwind, then nodded to the helmsman.
CORMORANT
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A sail blows off the foredeck and a spinnaker drum jams so they can't jibe on the downwind leg.
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Approaching the small township of Pripyat, downwind from the disaster, we passed through a belt of pinewoods, sere and withered, the needles distorted as if scorched by unseen flame.
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When water vapour condenses, it generates precipitation and heats the air in ways that influence downwind ecosystems, as described later.
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Those developing their techniques will enjoy the chopping water a little downwind - excellent if you're first starting to get airborne.
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My bird, only passingly beloved, flew away downwind with a dismaying swiftness that was magnificent enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a good first leg down to Beech Hill, Falcon turned first with a healthy lead but Pilgrim and Merrymaid hung on downwind before the whole fleet was becalmed south of Rampholme.
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If this happens, the cooling of the reactor fuel would stop, the radioactive core would start to melt, and the plant will belch a radioactive plume that will threaten millions downwind.
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Unusual wind patterns at lunch time saw the first race start in light northerlies, but the fleet had to contend with lulls in the middle of the race course, and then southerlies at the leeward mark, which turned the first downwind leg back into a beat!
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Since cross winds will drift the slipstream downwind, a pace line must echelon to get the benefit of drafting in a cross wind.
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If you're caught downwind from a blast, take measures to prevent radioactive dust particles entering your body.
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A vessel in which the loss of ground downwind is minimal is described as weatherly, as opposed to leewardly.
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I could stand downwind of those horsemints while working them over with the bullwhip and it really smelled nice as the plants were shredded to pieces.
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They live downwind of a pig-farm and sometimes the smell is awful.
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If there is a sniper downwind of you, he will sniff the air, smell your urine, and loose off a whole clip at you, even though he can't see you.
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The resulting vortices can extend far downwind depending on the size and number of turbines.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dropping a float light to determine wind direction, we made one pass over the raft downwind.
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My little part of aviation starts on downwind and ends when you turn off on a taxiway.
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The winds were out of the south southeast, and I wanted to go downwind.
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A sail blows off the foredeck and a spinnaker drum jams so they can't jibe on the downwind leg.
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Standing on the deck, downwind of a ship's funnel, investigators found air pollution of 84,000 ultrafine particles per cubic centimetre.
Times, Sunday Times
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You'll hear sounds originating upwind from your house better than those originating closer to home on the downwind side.
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Using two tanks will give you a range of around 100 miles in nil wind or much more if you fly downwind.
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The first satellite, Geotail, was launched in 1992 by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science to study the distant reaches of Earth's magnetic tail, the region downwind on the nightside of Earth.
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Our magic motor stopped, the doors swung open – and we must have been downwind because a certain effluvia crept over us.
2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
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Using two tanks will give you a range of around 100 miles in nil wind or much more if you fly downwind.
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They tracked the animals, taking care to remain downwind and out of sight.
CHAMELEON
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If you have no other means of staying warm besides the heater, turn the car into the wind if possible, make certain the tailpipe is free of snow, crack a window on both the upwind and downwind sides, and run it only for five minutes every half hour.
Survival Tips for Living Through a Snowstorm in Your Truck
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Military personnel may have had contact with hydrazines and nitric acid when they disarmed or disposed of Scud missiles or were downwind of a missile explosion.
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He attempted to return downwind to the airfield.
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I cranked up the speed and spent the next hour and a half climbing fast and screaming downwind.
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They were gaining airspeed now, Hall getting ready for the dangerous turn downwind on one engine.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Be consistent - drop notches of flaps in the same place on every landing, e.g., first notch when you're downwind abeam, second on base, last notch on final.
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As I finished each of the major rooms I took the vacuum out to empty straight into the trash and gave the dusters a jolly good shake downwind.
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Such as the 100,000 people who were directly downwind of Nevada's fallout.
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They are immediately downwind of coal-burning electric plants in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, and their high elevation makes them extremely susceptible to sulfates and nitrates moving through the atmosphere.
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But the crews are sailing downwind with the spinnaker up.
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With the dodger up it sailed downwind at nearly a knot and a half, complete with steerage!
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The neighbors started to whine about living downwind from a smokehouse; my kitchen was reduced to a glorified pantry, used for almost nothing except storing condiments and beer.
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This process, in which sand grains bounce downwind, is called saltation.
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With erosion on the windward slope and deposition in the lee, the dune body moves in a downwind direction.
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Notice for this wind field that graupel falls rapidly to the surface and drifts only a short distance downwind.
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But we were on the weather side and the rocks and ashes had been blowing downwind and we weren't on that side of the volcano.
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Within another ten paces, I scared up two additional jackrabbits, both of which ran downwind and out of sight.
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They are immediately downwind of coal-burning electric plants in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, and their high elevation makes them extremely susceptible to sulfates and nitrates moving through the atmosphere.
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In each of 8 areas downwind and proximate to closed nuclear power plants, infant deaths declined in excess of national trends during the first 2 yr following shutdown.
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Thus, downwind males could be located higher in the vegetation to increase their chances of intercepting a pheromone plume and locating a receptive female.
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For example, emissions of sulphur dioxide by one state will be carried by winds and deposited as acid rain on downwind countries.
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My older sister was once hospitalized after walking downwind of a brush fire in an area where poison ivy grew.
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On the outward downwind leg, against the flood tide, he covered the two miles in ‘half a quarter of one hour’, an impressive speed of sixteen knots.
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We were playing downwind and I was trying to peg them back as far as I could.
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You might want to consider scheduling an annual dual flight with an experienced instructor to review downwind take-offs and landings.
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Given the prevailing south-west to north-east winds of the Sudbury summer, Penage is normally upwind, not downwind, from the smokestacks.
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Both the 470s and the 49ers also have an additional sail for downwind, called a spinnaker.
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And a medical colleague of his, Dr Alan Preece, says lung cancer is more common downwind of power lines than upwind.
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But the crews are sailing downwind with the spinnaker up.
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He may have some recollection of a study of cattle in fields downwind of the Steelworks, which indicated that fluorides deposited in these fields eaten by cattle produced discoloration of teeth and deformation of hooves.
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And so in Tasmania we have no significant detriment in the downwind direction.
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Given the prevailing south-west to north-east winds of the Sudbury summer, Penage is normally upwind, not downwind, from the smokestacks.
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He approached from downwind, forcing the flames to pause against the blast from his rotors.
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This afternoon I kept busy on deck working out the easiest way to pole the headsail (using the spinnaker pole to hold the headsail right out) to make sailing downwind (with the wind right behind us) more comfortable.
True Spirit
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There is a tendency for the boom vang to be pulled on too hard when sailing downwind.
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When the trees are decimated in a region, a process called "desertification" tends to occur downwind because the trees are no longer there to pump groundwater back into the atmosphere to fall back to Earth as additional rainfall at some down wind location.
Matthew Stein: The Perfect Storm: Six Trends Converging on Collapse
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Suburbanites are not pleased if they are downwind on a hot day. allan Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Urban Farming
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The difference in ride going upwind and downwind was enormous, demonstrating the need to assess weather conditions for an offshore trip with a boat full of potentially tired divers.
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The downwardly curved petiole twists away from the wind, so its ventral surface points downwind.
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All of us like to fly downwind because it's easier and there is some room for errors but everybody agrees the ability to fly upwind is an important skill which should be tested and rewarded.
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they flew downwind
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As each flight started on the downwind leg the ships reformed in an echelon to the right and completed before-landing checklists.
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But she recognises that the much faster downwind route can be a lot more threatening than the upwind way, eastabout.
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I began a turn to a downwind pattern to stay close to base and remain underneath the overcast.
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I can drift downwind and still stay away from the Laredo airspace.
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If you are downwind when the whales blow, there is no mistaking the content of their gargantuan diet.
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Meanwhile health chiefs in the area worst hit by foot and mouth yesterday called a halt on the use of pyres to burn thousands of animal carcasses, amid fears that the smoke might affect the health of people living downwind.
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I always fell difficulty to catch the wave and surfing during downwind.