How To Use Windy In A Sentence

‘Tree surfing’ is euphoria-induced skylarking on a windy day.
Paris doesn't feel that old, especially after all the time I spent in the compact, windy streets of the old City of Zurich.
The weather will be wet and windy in the south.
- A small backpacker stove, fuel and cookpot (and spoon!) - Clothing suitable for wet, windy or cold weather Parry thrust parry
If it's feeling windy and I smell faint woodsmoke, I expect colder weather within a couple days.

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Joey got all jacked-up feeling, all strange and tight and hard everyplace, and his breathing got windy. FAMILY BLESSINGS
On windy days, the smoke was wafted so that signals became garbled and confusing.
Team with cycling shorts on windy days and work a flippy spin as you turn on your heels. Times, Sunday Times
People are not used to driving on windy country roads with adverse cambers and it takes them by surprise.
It is now all change again as the weather turns wet and windy. Times, Sunday Times
Wet and windy weather will crash through on Wednesday. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, I could not see the town yet, as the country road was quite windy and hilly.
It may be true that, according to Freddoso, Obama dismissed the slogan “Yes we can” as “vapid and mindless” when it was first proposed to him, in 2004, but he liked it well enough in 2008, and then came the null emptiness of the phrase — the audacity of hope — that he annexed from a windy sermon by Jeremiah Wright. Cool Cat
Hold the stem in place with a strong tie that does not rub the stem or branches when it is windy. The Sun
Over the divide at the head of this creek is a tributary of the Big Windy. THE END OF THE STORY
Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
Using ancient technology unique to the region, windmills grind the wheat harvested in June through September, the windy period during which wind speeds can get as high as 100 mph.
However, Murphy proving to be the master tactician took a gamble that the roads would dry under the windy conditions and had the car shod with completely slick tyres.
We stayed together, and landed on a dark, windy night with no airspeed indicator or brakes.
However, like Harley-Davidson motorcycles, they look completely out of context, if not ridiculous, on the narrow, windy streets of London.
It was a windy night and the sky was filled with clouds. The Other Side of Me
Staking or supporting early in the growing season is best and can help direct plant growth, encourage better flower displays and prevent damage during wet and windy weather.
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Luck they had indoor entertainment as weather was extremely wet and windy.
About 10,000 people braved wet and windy weather to attend the ceremony at the Margraten cemetery in the southern Netherlands.
We can expect dryer but very windy weather before high pressure takes control and there may be a return to calmer, misty and possibly cold autumnal conditions. Times, Sunday Times
wind is important in spreading diseases: for example bacterial blight is spread in wet, windy weather.
The photograph on the screen was taken from our camp on Windy Col, (22,000 feet), looking back at the route we followed, and showing in the distance, about 100 miles away, Kangchenjunga, 28,400 feet, which is the second highest mountain in the world. The Mount Everest Expedition
It was wet and windy topside, the fog thick, the chop starting to get nasty. CORMORANT
The remains of a diamond-shaped plan overlook the windy headland.
It has been a cold, windy, blustery, blizzardy Christmas. Blizzards and peppermint candy canes....
‘When there's a windy day, there are lots of updrafts that raptors like to use,’ the biologist said.
Hold the stem in place with a strong tie that does not rub the stem or branches when it is windy. The Sun
It gets very windy on Sunday and this storm on Sunday into Monday morning could be a big-time snowmaker and a headache maker for anybody getting in and out of the east coast on Monday morning. CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2007
Apply wood preservative only after windy, drying weather. Times, Sunday Times
It can't be too windy, and there must not be any rain, thunderclouds, or lightning nearby.
Also, the novel design involving the telescope being slung on the outside of the tower on a pulley meant that it could not be used on windy days as there would be too much vibration.
a windy dash home
Easter had been wet, windy and miserable anyway, and the Beggar and its feeder becks were already to bank level when the freak storm hit the side of Tup Fell and turned swollen into overflowing.
This unsettled and windy spell looks set to linger through much of this week. Times, Sunday Times
The secondary roads are windy and provide poor links to the main roads and there is no bus stop.
On the third day, the weather had reverted to its seasonal norm—chilly, windy, below-zero temperatures—increasing the "riding vibe," with thicker leggings and jodhpurs, flat black-leather riding boots (see Hermès, Cole Haan and Gucci) or sneakers (Prada and Lanvin), heavy woolen pea coats, cashmere scarves (Lora Piana) and Chanel bags. Springtime in New York
One view is that jazz could have found its way to Illinois in the person of Bert Kelly, a banjo player who moved from San Francisco to form a jazz ensemble in the Windy City.7 It appears that the word jazz was only subsequently adopted by Dixieland bands from New Orleans, by artists in Harlem, and throughout the United States.v The English Is Coming!
The tradespeople aren't working outside this morning because it's too windy and dangerous.
Hang gliding and paragliding are allowed from the top of Windy Hill.
Wet and sometimes windy weather looks likely to continue this week thanks to a mild air flow from the south. Times, Sunday Times
But the South will escape with just a wet and windy day. The Sun
The weather seemed to be a pretense for a storm, windy and hinting toward a tempest.
All parker did was say “windy” means winds in the 3rd tercel. Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit
Very friendly front-of-house, nice bar area and both the grill and the restaurant offer pretty views of a windy forecourt between four skyscrapers.
It will become windy in the far north and west.
The room is a very handsome one, but it is on the top of a windy and muddy hill, leading (literally) to nowhere; and it looks (except that it is new and _mortary_) as if the subsidence of the waters after the The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870
Nevertheless it was still an excellent all-round performance and a good game despite the windy conditions.
Even on the most dismal of wet, windy days the quality of O'Meara's stock is apparent, from the dazzling display of winter colour polyanthus and camellias to the serried rows of bushes and trees, both bare-rooted and in containers.
By the end of a book that began as a windy meditation on leadership we are left with the impression of a decent man whose experiences offer many lessons indeed.
Unfortunately it was raining, windy and cold and when we got there the place was deserted.
Their words and drawings were created by the same husband-and-wife team, and they were both inspired by where the couple lives: a steep, windy, densely foliaged neighborhood across from a dark forest of ivy-covered trees filled with coyotes and owls. A Rockin' Forest Fairy Tale
The touchdown happened a little late because of cloudy and windy weather.
It will be mainly dry for a time on Wednesday, with sunny spells, but wet and windy weather will develop later.
Our weather today is very windy with the odd shower of rain.
It's mainly eco-bling — massive investments in wind turbines which don't work when it's too windy or there's no wind. The Sun
It is now all change again as the weather turns wet and windy. Times, Sunday Times
It will become windy in the far north and west.
They stood together in the long corridors and windy balconies; they watched the sunset and the flocks of birds that seemed to be searching for perches from the large windows of her upstairs room.
But you may have to commit yourself to going on a ramble or wearing a cagoule up a windy hill.
We hardly use ours because it is so windy. The Sun
On windy days he finds himself flying over Doncaster, flares a-flap, hair streaming behind him like a curtain.
Soon we were driving along the windy roads surrounded by tall trees that led to my grand parents' house.
It is said to counteract flatulence and is often used in the cooking of pulses and other ‘windy’ vegetables such as cauliflower.
Though it was a dull, rather windy day, people turned out in force.
Roads were regularly maintained – although then, roads were narrow and sometimes windy, they were motorable throughout the year. Professor Emman Osakwe « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
Wet and windy conditions will sweep in this week. The Sun
The occurrence of ventifacts and frost fissures implies a cold, windy periglacial climate.
The crew had its first training session in February, a four-day ordeal which was deemed a success despite windy and unsettled conditions, with winds getting up to 38 knots at times.
Election Day in a Chinese village brings Jimmy Carter, windy speeches, and dubious promises
It survived being rolled down a precipitous stony track in Provence to be delivered to the garden on the windy ridge. Times, Sunday Times
Despite wet and windy weather last week, the vehicle terminal at the port here reached a new record, handling 37 containers per working hour.
So secure hair in windy conditions to protect it and reduce the risk of static. The Sun
Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
With an expression perfected from years of successful begging on the streets of the Windy City, he eyed Walker dubiously. Lost And Found
Windy was still making sure everyone was evacuated, and the other 3 were plenty busy.
It is a seriously windy and interesting piece of bitumen.
It's very windy-you'd better hold onto your hat.
Tom Thumb's mother once took him with her when she went to milk the cow; and it being a very windy day, she tied him with a needleful of thread to a thistle, that he might not be blown away.
The green bean was generally referred to as the haricot; the mature bean, dried and divested of its pod, was called the fêverole.59 The latter seems to have been less used in polite society, perhaps because of its windy nature, but its resemblance to the fava bean was close enough to guide cooks in preparing it. Savoring The Past
An example would be dry, warm, or windy conditions that cause excessive shrinkage and cracking in overlays.
The sky blazed blue, and the ocean glittered with foam from little whitecaps - it was just windy enough to cause them.
The sun was shining and it was not too windy, so we breakfasted alfresco style.
Wet and sometimes windy weather looks likely to continue this week thanks to a mild air flow from the south. Times, Sunday Times
Last year we painted a picture of Kinross as a hidden gem containing stunning classics such as Loch Leven, windy roads and friendly country pubs.
Minor improvement Sunday with highs heading back toward the upper 30s to near 40 and less windy, but still some lingering breeziness. Forecast: Cold to gradually tighten grip
Those gas prices are not stopping tens of thousands of travelers from hitting the roadways around Chicago tonight after a winter storm hit the Windy City today.
Nothing was more amusing than standing inside the pivot point and seeing it twist and turn as the driver maneuvered through the windy streets of Kingston.
It is so windy and cold that we have resorted to lighting a fire and putting the heating back on. Times, Sunday Times
After a wet and windy night, westerly winds made much of the north and west brighter and fresher. Times, Sunday Times
Hilly areas are often windy, but the wind could blow strong for certain periods and then not at all during others.
The winter monsoon brings rain and snow to the west whilst the east remains dry but windy. Geography Basic Facts
The past day or 2 it's been sunnier which is more common for the region, but insanely windy! Archive 2006-10-01
Turning colder with further rain or showers and staying windy. The Sun
I know, I haven't the eloquence of Montrose nor the windy controversialness of Miss Muffett. Brownstoner
It is so commanding that he who stands on the westmost pinnacle can look across the windy hill of the Pnyx, across the brown plain-land and down to the sparkling blue sea with the busy havens of Peiræus and A Victor of Salamis
I am on the Malecon, Havana's seaside drive, where it is getting very windy, but the eye of the hurricane has already hit land.
Kickoff was switched from mid-afternoon to midmorning and played in windy and rainy conditions in a near-empty stadium. USATODAY.com
Moonlight nights are, as a rule, blank ones for the "sugarer" -- (Do the moths fly high to the light?) -- but I once had a grand capture of many specimens of the "sword-grass" (C. exoleta) on a bright moonlight and very windy night in February; and Dr. Knaggs says that on one occasion he met with night-flying moths literally swarming on a sugared fence in a field once in his possession, whither, in the small hours, he had taken a stroll with a friend on the brightest moonlight morning it was ever his lot to behold. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
Make the most of the dry weather because wet and windy conditions are expected to return this weekend. Times, Sunday Times
I have endeavoured to show that Shakespeare cooperated with this derision of forced love-sighs, writing certain of his sonnets in ridicule of their windy suspiration.
Even though it was raining, freezing cold and windy most of the time, it is still a wonderful, magical place.
Of burnt-out stars not even cinders were left, the last scraps of helium ash evanesced like table dust on a windy day. Flinx's Folly
And when the jet stream runs fast and straight, the weather turns very wet and windy. Times, Sunday Times
It wants to stand as a sweeping spectacle of one of the darkest chapters in our young nation's history, but it only wants to accomplish it with words, not deeds, bombastic brays from bearded windy windbags, not gripping historical drama.
You are likewise to abstain from beans, from the preak, by some called the polyp, as also from coleworts, cabbage, and all other such like windy victuals, which may endanger the troubling of your brains and the dimming or casting a kind of mist over your animal spirits. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Then we could make it in the summer sun and on windy days, for use on cold winter nights. Times, Sunday Times
It has white, erect flowers and does well in wild, windy gardens, but, like all pieris, dislikes lime. Times, Sunday Times
Management was mindful of the challenge which they faced, particularly as the day dawned wet and somewhat windy.
After a wet and windy night, westerly winds made much of the north and west brighter and fresher. Times, Sunday Times
And when the jet stream runs fast and straight, the weather turns very wet and windy. Times, Sunday Times
The weather will be wet and windy in the south.
The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs.
The North may not see double figures at all next week and most of the country will be wet and windy with frosts. The Sun
The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs.
Tomorrow could bring some respite from wet and windy weather. Times, Sunday Times
Although windy, the weather stayed dry and all the participants thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
People, unaware of the dangers, were shovelling it out of public buildings and their houses into the town's dry and windy streets.
Despite windy weather Miss Skelton and the two Oshkosh air aces, Steve Wittman and Bill Brennard, cut up the atmosphere in what could have been taken for good old "barnstorming" tactics were it not for the fact that the emphasis throughout the program was on safe flying. The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines
Wendy", as it is a contrived name first found in a popular fiction, and given its similarity to "windy", is hardly any better -- as it suggests a verbal facility with rhetoric designed, pace Burke's conception of Dramatism and the pedant, to elide the varied and opposed interests of the so-called abled community and those of persons with disabilities. Readercon 16: Day 1
It was a very windy day, with great black clouds and blinding hail: a real storm.
It is now all change again as the weather turns wet and windy. Times, Sunday Times
It survived being rolled down a precipitous stony track in Provence to be delivered to the garden on the windy ridge. Times, Sunday Times
After a wet and windy night, westerly winds made much of the north and west brighter and fresher. Times, Sunday Times
It is going to be a musical weekend this Easter, with classical music by the orchestra and township jive at Windybrow.
a windy bluff
In the fall, they might come out plenty in the early morning and late afternoon, with only a few seen in the midday in bad or just plain old cold weather, they will stay in their holes windy is almost always bad for winter, but in the fall if they want to feed you might see a few In New York, what is the best weather for squirrels to come out?
There is a risk of very windy conditions but overall it will not be too cold with temperatures around normal.
It was wet and windy for most of the week.
The pour had subsided to a drizzle, and it was getting a whole lot less windy.
Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
But for sure we lost too much in the first two corners, the car was a little bit oversteering, it was quite windy and I think there was some grass also on the track, so I think it was not perfect conditions for my lap in the first two corners.
Finally, if you're deciding when to brave the great outdoors, choose a windy, sunny day.
It was so windy the tent nearly blew away!
In persistently windy areas consider planting a windbreak to create a more benign climate for your garden.
I went across the clattering, windy linkage space between the dining and dome cars and stood outside the toilet room.
It was so windy that the branches were scraping against the window panes.
Make the most of the dry weather because wet and windy conditions are expected to return this weekend. Times, Sunday Times
The new Bears quarterback was happy to be in the Windy City and had kind words to say about Denver despite his stormy exit.
The kids were running around, some with kites, as the weather was so windy.
Like your butterflies, beneficial insects are cold-blooded and don't like cold, windy weather.
The weather was so excellent yesteray -- cold and windy and grey -- that I took Big Dog for a walk over to the field by what I call the creek and what is actually, of course, a storm drain. The Big Dog
From what I have read, Chicago is nicknamed the windy city for different reasons.
Tomorrow could bring some respite from wet and windy weather. Times, Sunday Times
In a game that started in windy, overcast conditions at M&T Bank Stadium - the home of the Baltimore Ravens - Notre Dame took control in the third quarter before the rain came and drove much of the crowd of 70,932 to the exits early. USATODAY.com
Kirkby began to monopolise possession and territory and earned two medium-range penalties but neither went over in the windy conditions.
The nine cored boreholes, four of which encountered chert beds, provide evidence of the stratigraphy, structure, palaeontology and depositional setting of the Rhynie and Windyfield cherts.
The frontmen for these two indie bands lead their respective cadres forward in the murky and windy forest of Canadian indie rock, an admittedly poorly defined genre, perhaps not a genre at all.
Our neighbourhood was more or less smack-dab in the middle of the mess, so while we didn't get the funnel clouds we sure did get a healthy dose of the wet and windy! Archive 2009-09-01
It is now all change again as the weather turns wet and windy. Times, Sunday Times
A Chicago-based blogger on the call apologized to Brennan and Falchuk for not having seen the "Glee" cast when they came to the Windy City to perform on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," saying, "Oprah wouldn't let me anywhere near. White House "Glee" performance "surreal" says co-creator
At one point, deep in the windy mountains, the windscreen wiper right in front of my face nearly blew away!
Then again, it was a pretty windy day, and voices were muted by the sound of the wind.
Make the most of the dry weather because wet and windy conditions are expected to return this weekend. Times, Sunday Times
A particular winged beetle type lives on large continental areas; the same beetle type on a small windy island has no wings.
The weather will be wet and windy in the south.
It was really windy today, so I didn't feel like going straight out to the front like I usually do, and just letting her draft the whole time and try to outkick me. DyeStat News Feed
Windy Hill Park on the estate is also set to be revamped with a new play area and extensive tidying in the coming months.
In yesterday's windy conditions, the front jib of the crane dangled at the former gasometer site, the damaged part swaying towards buildings.
Jon Hizzard lives on Flinder's Island, just off the windy northeast tip of Tassie.
After a wet and windy night, westerly winds made much of the north and west brighter and fresher. Times, Sunday Times
Will there be a space flight tonight? NASA officials are hoping to launch Space Shuttle Discovery this evening, but a windy forecast threatens the lift-off.
Anyway, this river just happens to be where the climate is all windy and blustering so the currents lap at you and force you to go into the opposite direction, no matter how hard you try to fight against it.
Small containers that are hanging or placed in windy or excessively sunny areas may need to be watered at least once a day.
I think the most dangerous part was riding for six hours in the back of a car on windy roads.
With the rainy and windy weather it will feel quite cold. Times, Sunday Times
THE longest pier in the world, a place so windy it'll knock you off your feet. The Sun
It will be interesting to see whether the phantom appears over the next few days, when mist and fog are unlikely to form in windy, warmer weather. Times, Sunday Times
They had to give up their record attempt because it was not windy enough.
Sometimes a Northerly gale leaps on us and has enormous fun chasing us about the windy streets as though we are of no more significance than a collection of dry leaves whirling along.
These need a lot of space and must not be placed in a windy position.
But as in windy weather the tapers were more wasted -- to remedy this inconvenience, he placed them in a kind of lanthorn, there being no glass to be met with in his dominions. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
It is now all change again as the weather turns wet and windy. Times, Sunday Times
What made it more remarkable was the weather, which was wet, cold and very windy, with the odd snow shower thrown in for good measure.
They are low today because of the wet and windy weather. Times, Sunday Times
This morn came, no change, still windy, grey with rough seas!
However, if the tree was staked in the nursery or if you are planting in a windy location, proper staking will support the tree during its first years in the ground.
Windy Gallagher is hooping while riding a mechanical bull at the 13th Annual Smoker Friendly Tobacco Festival in Boulder, Colorado. Hooping.org | Blog | Bull Riding Hooper
This unsettled and windy spell looks set to linger through much of this week. Times, Sunday Times
I can't attempt to summarize eighty years in a few sentences, and I have a horror of turning into a windy old bore. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
It has a carefully excogitated circular structure, whereby its beginning manages to bite its tail, its way of getting there is haphazard and halting, its often windy dialogue a poor antimacassar for its spindly furnishings.
And when the jet stream runs fast and straight, the weather turns very wet and windy. Times, Sunday Times
We eventually found a bench on a windy overground train platform and huddled round lousy tea and coffees trying to keep warm.
That weekend it was dreadful weather, it was wet, it was cold, it was windy, and that just made our emotions even more hard to bear.
While meticulous plan after meticulous plan succeeded in liberating half a ton of gold bullion, the scheme was bound to be foiled by the windy alpine roads, and a piece of damaged macadam.
It has asked that families choose a windy day and throw ashes into the air to distribute them widely. Times, Sunday Times
It survived being rolled down a precipitous stony track in Provence to be delivered to the garden on the windy ridge. Times, Sunday Times
Airing on Sunday, Nov. 23, ` ` 24: Redemption '' was partly shot during a windy, chilly winter in South Africa (aka the summery and warm fictional nation of Sangala) and partly in sunny Los Angeles (aka Washington, D.C., in January). Berks county news
Feb 22, 1988: On a snowy, windy, rainy, stormy, day I stay inside and play computer games.
Hold the stem in place with a strong tie that does not rub the stem or branches when it is windy. The Sun
It's likely to be a windy day across Thurles according to the forecast and that's precisely the kind of day that fills blue spinnakers.
They've come away on a windy day with a result, but we should be larruping people like that.
On a bitterly wet and windy day at an old airfield in Leicestershire I had reason to question both claims. Times, Sunday Times
The loving twosome will make their new life together by residing in the Windy City.
He describes their hellish home of hidden evil upon evil, windy wolf-dens, cliffs, and skies of dark air and black rain.

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