How To Use East wind In A Sentence

  • The sun shone high in the December sky and a cold north-east wind dried the countryside after weeks of rain.
  • The East Wind prevails over the West Wind.
  • It was believed that the east window of the church dated back to the Reformation period.
  • Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie.
  • The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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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.
  • View the beautiful east window and soak up the sense of history at Carlisle Cathedral, where there are many historical points of interest.
  • A terrific east wind swept away the groups of clouds.
  • Located on the south-east of Hirta, the largest of St Kilda's five islands, even Village Bay can become an inhospitable place when a south-east wind gets up.
  • The 6th day is another non-fly day, because of a strong south-east wind.
  • The east wind was very quiet, almost remorseful.
  • Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie.
  • Cold East wind and a dull dreary walk. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
  • In the southern hemisphere it is the meeting place of the dry east to southeast winds generated by the subtropical highs, and the moisture-laden northwesterly monsoon winds.
  • The east wind settled down a bit to 10 mph and we decide to run away from it anyway.
  • And those northeast winds... brrr. Times, Sunday Times
  • The curtains were drawn over the east window looking out over the harbour mouth, but the alcove with the oriel north window was uncurtained. Movie Night
  • The site was selected for its northern orientation, its shelter from the prevailing south-east wind, its open terrain, views and landform.
  • Over the next 24 hours, temperatures will rise no higher than 3 deg C but the chilly north east winds will make it feel more like minus 5 deg C.
  • In the past the water discoloured after three days of the east wind blowing.
  • Cold East wind and a dull dreary walk. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
  • The East Wind prevails over the West Wind.
  • Late though it was, a dim light from the great East window fell in broad slabs of purple and green shadow across the grey; everything was indistinct; only the white marble of the Reredos was like a figured sheet hanging from wall to wall, and the gilded trumpets of the angels on the choir-screen stood out dimly like spider pattern. The Cathedral
  • The repair and conservation of the east front includes the removal and restoration of the great east window - the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world.
  • Not in the least winded, Anderson segued into John Coltrane's "Central Part West," a cooled-down proposition not without a segment so challenging that Anderson's fleet tooting brought to mind an amazing display of broken-field running. David Finkle: Every Street's a Jazz Boulevard in Old New York
  • The east winds are strong on the coast at the buoy's, but it sure looks like it will be lighter inland.
  • Red flags flow in the east wind.
  • Three windows let in the afternoon sunlight, windows that sparkled from a recent washing; a trailing fuchsia in full bloom, in an old wash-basin painted green, was suspended from the ceiling in front of the east window. The Second Chance
  • /[Page 372] /imagining, all afternoon, over Ayr and environs (Arran from the sea sand, in the hazy east wind nightfall, grand and grim. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • A whistling east wind drove us along the beach. Times, Sunday Times
  • The morning was cold and grey, with a cutting east wind.
  • A 20-knot northeast wind was raising heavy seas.
  • Right now there is just a cold east wind and fine needles of falling rain.
  • The like is the danger to ships going northward, if after passing by Winterton they are taken short with a north-east wind, and cannot put back into the Roads, which very often happens, then they are driven upon the same coast, and embayed just as the latter. A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
  • Two inlets on either side of this caused some problems, along with that persistent east wind before the storm finally got here.
  • Outside, a bitter east wind was accompanied by flurries of snow.
  • She walked over and peered out the east windows to where the horse barn had been.
  • The East Window is one of the few items in the Minster where we have such a personal account of how it came into being.
  • Early morning sun shone in the east windows, bringing warm light into the already sunny kitchen.
  • My Eyes have been leaving me in the lurch again: partly perhaps from taxing them with a little more Reading: partly from going on the Water, and straining after our River Beacons, in hot Sun and East Wind; partly also, and _main partly_ I doubt, from growing so much older and the worse for wear. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II
  • A northeast wind is blowing strongly.
  • Deledda's recurrent image of corruptibility is also found in "While the East Wind Blows," the short story published on this web site, in which the peasants harbor the futile dream of not being reduced to ashes, non essere ridotti in cenere. Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia
  • Sometimes, when the east wind is full of meditative savagery, one almost fancies that a hot odour may have travelled in its caravan from the heart of China, bringing us a message from the spice trees of Kwangtung. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
  • Nevertheless, by 1405, the east window was ready to receive its stained glass.
  • The church's northeast window has beautifully coloured glass.
  • The 6th day is another non-fly day, because of a strong south-east wind.
  • Given the prevailing south-west to north-east winds of the Sudbury summer, Penage is normally upwind, not downwind, from the smokestacks.
  • The cove nestles under high cliffs and is protected from all but east winds.
  • By 9.15 a bitter north-east wind was blowing.
  • That walk was only twenty five minutes, although much of it was into the biting East Wind.
  • Unlike Coogee and beaches to the north, the lack of high headlands also means that most of the suburbs in Maroubra are more exposed to south-east winds.
  • Cold northeast winds have been bringing birds in off the North Sea. Times, Sunday Times
  • In front of it is a xystus, fragrant with violets, where the sun's heat is increased by reflection from the cryptoportico, which, at the same time, breaks the northeast wind. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • A whistling east wind drove us along the beach. Times, Sunday Times
  • The morning was cold and grey, with a cutting east wind.
  • The clouds do start early and there is a strong east wind so it is confusing thinking about how to handle the task.
  • Strong east winds to near tropical storm force have pushed water up to four to six feet above normal levels there.
  • That was replaced by a dry east wind that brought colder but still sunny weather and early morning frosts.
  • Some gardeners claim seeds start best in east windows; others say south, but the truth is no window is ideal.
  • The East Wind prevails over the West Wind.
  • It was a dull October day, complete with rain-filled sky and a chill north-east wind.
  • But a driving east wind fanned the flames across firebreaks, and, despite the efforts of ward and parish officials and the lord mayor, they soon became uncontrollable.
  • There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell 
  • Leaning against the rail, she let the east wind blow into her face.
  • One day Betty was looking over from Mary Beck's and saw that the east window and the pear-tree branch were in plain sight; so the two girls invented a system of signals: one white handkerchief meant _come over_, and two meant _no_, but a single one in answer was for _yes_. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls
  • One day while out in the parking lot, the director happened to glance up at the east window.
  • Ten days before, a Tuesday, after she had watered her ferns and perennials, she stood watering the aloe vera plant at her east window, her window facing the street.
  • A group of alders and pinus pinasters has provided shelter from the north east wind for the Students' Union building.
  • This lande by the benefite of the battling breathe of the gentle Weast winde, reapeth corne twise in the yere. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • It will feel cool with a northeast wind and rain along some southeast and eastern English counties. Times, Sunday Times
  • Southeast winds nudged the oil slick onto the shore.
  • In contrast to her previous greatness, her downfall is here, by a sudden transition, depicted under the image of a vessel foundering at sea. east wind -- blowing from Lebanon, the most violent wind in the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • A hard, cold Christmas it was proving to be, that year of 1135, all bitter black frost and grudging snow, thin and sharp as whips before a withering east wind. A Rare Benedictine
  • A northeast wind is blowing strongly.
  • No hankerer after an east wind should be without them. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
  • It will cost an estimated £65,000 to repair the fragile east window at All Saints parish church in Otley but churchgoers fear it may be lost unless the money is raised soon.
  • The sun shone high in the December sky and a cold north-east wind dried the countryside after weeks of rain.
  • I spared most of it, because blackthorn makes a magnificent show of snowy blossom when the cold north-east winds blow in late March, known as the blackthorn winter’. Wildwood
  • For two weeks we had a black frost day and night with a strong east wind and then on February 2nd, when everywhere was bone dry at 3pm, the snow started to fall.
  • After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted - thin and scorched by the east wind.
  • It took ten years to build and has a stained-glass east window that must be seen if in the area.
  • It was a dull October day, complete with rain-filled sky and a chill north-east wind.
  • The ride seems like eternity, it lapses off so gentle and smooth, and the landscape is so impressively similar: everywhere the plunging surf, the gray sand-hills, the dark cedars with foliage sliced off sharp and flat by the keen east wind -- their stems twisted like a dishclout or like the olives around Florence. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873
  • Unlike Coogee and beaches to the north, the lack of high headlands also means that most of the suburbs in Maroubra are more exposed to south-east winds.
  • (1290-1298), it consists of a lofty central arch with smaller openings on the sides; above the arches are enriched gables with pinnacles and finials; over the centre arch in a trefoil is a figure of the Saviour; the restoration of the north side of this monument will afford some idea of its original appearance; the effect has been somewhat subdued by the softened light from the east window. Ely Cathedral
  • The usual harbinger of a wetter summer is the persistence of south-east winds at the Cape.
  • On a blustery morning in March, a biting east wind carrying intimations of snow, a few hardy cranespotters have gathered at the summit of Arthur's Seat to count the current crop.
  • A northeast wind is blowing strongly.
  • This is because the prevailing east wind continues to stack drifting weeds against the exposed rocks.
  • Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie.
  • Located on the south-east of Hirta, the largest of St Kilda's five islands, even Village Bay can become an inhospitable place when a south-east wind gets up.
  • The many species of Pilea (Aluminium Plant) grow best in an east window or a medium light intensity.
  • There is an inscription to Frances Matthew beside the great east window of the Minster.
  • The usual harbinger of a wetter summer is the persistence of south-east winds at the Cape.
  • Then there are winter days when the east wind blows, scouring the sky of clouds and freezing the dunes hard as marble.
  • High pressure in the east and low pressure in the west drew south to southeast winds this week. Times, Sunday Times
  • Whether the orange plastic buckets will stand the north-east winds is another matter.
  • A cuckoo called, and swallows swooped low in east winds sucked dry by the hot land.
  • He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power.
  • Whether the orange plastic buckets will stand the north-east winds is another matter.
  • As the lift ascends, it passes the Great East Window, giving a close-up view of the toll the weather and environment has taken on the glass and masonry over the past six centuries.
  • The site was selected for its northern orientation, its shelter from the prevailing south-east wind, its open terrain, views and landform.
  • Located in the Caribbean's southeast Windward Islands, St. Lucia has a volcanic, tropical landscape, with steep dramatic valleys and dark sand beaches--it resembles Hawaii. Dwight Brown: St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island
  • Northwest winds for autumn and winter, spring and summer for the east or east wind.
  • The other hatchment is for Mrs. Henrietta Sleorgin who has the raised tomb outside the east window.

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