downwind

How To Use downwind In A Sentence

• 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.
• Given the prevailing south-west to north-east winds of the Sudbury summer, Penage is normally upwind, not downwind, from the smokestacks.
• You might want to consider scheduling an annual dual flight with an experienced instructor to review downwind take-offs and landings.
• We were playing downwind and I was trying to peg them back as far as I could.
• 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.
• My older sister was once hospitalized after walking downwind of a brush fire in an area where poison ivy grew.
• For example, emissions of sulphur dioxide by one state will be carried by winds and deposited as acid rain on downwind countries.
• Thus, downwind males could be located higher in the vegetation to increase their chances of intercepting a pheromone plume and locating a receptive female.
• 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.
• 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.