How To Use Downwind In A Sentence
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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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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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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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We were playing downwind and I was trying to peg them back as far as I could.
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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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My older sister was once hospitalized after walking downwind of a brush fire in an area where poison ivy grew.
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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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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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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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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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Within another ten paces, I scared up two additional jackrabbits, both of which ran downwind and out of sight.
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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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Notice for this wind field that graupel falls rapidly to the surface and drifts only a short distance downwind.
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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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This process, in which sand grains bounce downwind, is called saltation.
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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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With the dodger up it sailed downwind at nearly a knot and a half, complete with steerage!
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But the crews are sailing downwind with the spinnaker up.
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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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Such as the 100,000 people who were directly downwind of Nevada's fallout.
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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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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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They were gaining airspeed now, Hall getting ready for the dangerous turn downwind on one engine.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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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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I always fell difficulty to catch the wave and surfing during downwind.
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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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If you are downwind when the whales blow, there is no mistaking the content of their gargantuan diet.
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I can drift downwind and still stay away from the Laredo airspace.
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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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But she recognises that the much faster downwind route can be a lot more threatening than the upwind way, eastabout.
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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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they flew 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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The downwardly curved petiole twists away from the wind, so its ventral surface points downwind.
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Both the 470s and the 49ers also have an additional sail for downwind, called a spinnaker.
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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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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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There is a tendency for the boom vang to be pulled on too hard when sailing downwind.
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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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He approached from downwind, forcing the flames to pause against the blast from his rotors.
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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 so in Tasmania we have no significant detriment in the downwind direction.
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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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But the crews are sailing downwind with the spinnaker up.
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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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A sail blows off the foredeck and a spinnaker drum jams so they can't jibe on the downwind leg.
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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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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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My bird, only passingly beloved, flew away downwind with a dismaying swiftness that was magnificent enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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When water vapour condenses, it generates precipitation and heats the air in ways that influence downwind ecosystems, as described later.
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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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A sail blows off the foredeck and a spinnaker drum jams so they can't jibe on the downwind leg.
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He waited until the Cormorant stabilized dead downwind, then nodded to the helmsman.
CORMORANT
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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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We even skip the 2:15 start time given our ability to stay put and not get blown downwind.
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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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I am downwind of the stream, downstream of the mountain.
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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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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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Start from a vertical climb directly downwind.
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Therefore, any beneficial effect of reactor shutdowns may apply only to the closest downwind counties.
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Day 1 was stormy, rain cells dumping near launch and downwind, north winds aloft.
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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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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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A sail blows off the foredeck and a spinnaker drum jams so they can't jibe on the downwind leg.
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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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By then, children and others living in downwind areas were beginning to develop leukemia.
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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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He attempted to return downwind to the airfield.
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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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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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They tracked the animals, taking care to remain downwind and out of sight.
CHAMELEON
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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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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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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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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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You'll hear sounds originating upwind from your house better than those originating closer to home on the downwind side.
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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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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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The winds were out of the south southeast, and I wanted to go 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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Dropping a float light to determine wind direction, we made one pass over the raft downwind.
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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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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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They live downwind of a pig-farm and sometimes the smell is awful.
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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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A vessel in which the loss of ground downwind is minimal is described as weatherly, as opposed to leewardly.
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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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Since cross winds will drift the slipstream downwind, a pace line must echelon to get the benefit of drafting in a cross wind.
