How To Use Upwind In A Sentence
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Even upwind, Janet could smell the burning rubber and plastic.
AFTERMATH
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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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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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The French team, which has struggled this week, sailed a strong race, with a good start, and a solid upwind leg.
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Moving to the other side of the road, which coincidentally happened to be upwind, I also found the asters blooming like crazy, mixed in with a bunch of yellow succulents, that I would have called sedum, but now I'm not so sure.
Grouse Diary Entry
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The rich went to live in the west of London, upwind of the smell of people and industry.
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I tacked upwind a few hundred yards and began slicing down the smooth, right-breaking faces, trying to stay focused on the sharp coral just below the surface.
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The kites fly upwind. How beautiful the scene is!
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Remaining upwind, above ground level, and in a sealed room with an adequate air supply, will provide protection for civilians - if they have time to prepare.
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If we're upwind of the animal it may smell our scent.
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Held the crosswire even with antler tips and 2 body widths upwind.
Return of the Model 70
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If we're upwind of the animal it may smell our scent.
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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.
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At the Australian Open in Deniliquin I was inclined to call difficult tasks with upwind legs.
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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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The kites fly upwind. How beautiful the scene is!
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These ships were especially effective when sailing upwind or to windward.
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These ships were especially effective when sailing upwind or to windward.
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You've sneaked upwind on many a victim before now, I shouldn't wonder.
PROSECUTOR
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If we're upwind of the animal it may smell our scent.
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When they browse they move upwind, carefully sniffing the air for danger, their sharp-sighted eyes constantly on the alert.
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Of course, it is late in the day, and the lift always seems to be the worse on the upwind legs.
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Wind strength was also variable resulting in different upwind courses being taken for all four races.
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Sailing back as the day cools, I take the boat out through the anchored yachts and begin the upwind journey home.
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they flew upwind
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In the first race, it was a bit tricky - after the start people were not sure about planing with daggerboard, but I believed in going planing and until the end of the first upwind it paid off," recounted Mashiah.
ISAF News
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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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According to Torr, ‘Tsetse use host kairomones to locate their hosts by a process termed ‘odour-mediated upwind anemotaxis’.
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A few minutes later, we reached the edge of the woods upwind of the dump and gasped clean air.
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As he approached from upwind, I caught a whiff of scent.
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Drive perpendicular to the direction of the prevalent winds and begin upwind from the area of active soil erosion.
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The tide was still ebbing furiously and the course lay once again upwind, and for a few minutes I amused some onlooking fisherman by not making any headway at all.
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When they browse they move upwind, carefully sniffing and sifting the air for danger, their sharp-sighted eyes constantly on the alert.
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For the flight experiments, two odour sources were placed at the upwind end of the wind tunnel.
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Does it make sense for us to promote and increase industrial development upwind?
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Because of this, I'd never live upwind of a pulp mill.
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The tide was still ebbing furiously and the course lay once again upwind, and for a few minutes I amused some onlooking fisherman by not making any headway at all.
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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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With their enormous wingspan - over 3 metres in the larger birds - the Pelican takes off from the water by facing upwind and running along the surface with its webbed feet while stretching out its wings.
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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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Troops would have been stationed upwind of the explosion so would not have suffered any significant radioactive fall-out, though there may have been a small risk of exposure.
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While our wingman searched another sector, we decided to search for the raft upwind, figuring a barge broadside to the wind would blow farther than a small raft with a sea anchor.
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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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A male moth flies upwind to a scent, and it goes through a very complicated repertoire to do it.
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‘I remember standing up, looking upwind and seeing someone face down in the water,’ Matthew remembers.
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In either event it might prove meat for Sheeta, and so the wary feline stalked by a circuitous route, upon soft, padded feet that gave forth no sound, until the circling aasvogel and his intended prey were upwind.
Tarzan the Untamed
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Unfortunately, the long over-hangs, broad bilges, shallow draft and centerboards encouraged by the rule do not make for a boat that is particularly fast upwind.
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The achenes produced by each capitulum are similar, possess a pappus of bristles that causes them to move upwind and a well-developed elaisome (oil-containing appendage).
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If there is an attack, leave the area and go upwind, or to the sides of the wind stream.