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How To Use get wind In A Sentence

• I don't want the public, and especially not the press, to get wind of it at this stage.
• Postponing implementation is a budget gimmick used to keep the cost artificially low (if you only show expenditures in five years out of a ten year budget window the program will appear cheaper than it really is). Archive 2009-09-01
• Sadly, some foolish people will get wind of your methods. Times, Sunday Times
• We stood outside to get windswept, missed the commentary and walked ashore to discover that Rottnest Island is overrun with quokkas - long tailed, short faced, round-eared marsupials that look disconcertingly like giant rats.
• And just in case those meddlesome friends of Hugh's manage to get wind of what we've done, the sanitarium is the safest place she could be! The Gates Of Sleep
• The SL is the first roadster to get window airbags to protect occupants' heads and upper bodies in the event of a smash.
• You may get winded easily as your uterus expands beneath your diaphragm, the muscle just below your lungs.
• As long as they don't get wind of how frustrating working for the national laboratories such as Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Livermore can be. Russ Wellen: Nuclear Weapons Just Not Sexy Anymore
• You are all your own people, and I have no rights over your soul - these very words I speak will likely be the end of the heirdom, should my father ever get wind of them.
• Sadly, some foolish people will get wind of your methods. Times, Sunday Times