Sample Sentences for
zephyr
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    There was not even a zephyr stirring; the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds; nature lay in a trance that was broken by no sound but the occasional far-off hammering of a woodpecker, and this seemed to render the pervading silence and sense of loneliness the more profound.  (source)
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    What might be several seconds pass, though they feel to Werner like hours, and the wind tears through the frosted grass, sending zephyrs and wisps of snow sirening off across the white, and a sudden nostalgia for Zollverein rolls through him in a wave: boyhood afternoons wandering the soot-stained warrens, towing his little sister in the wagon.  (source)
    zephyrs = breezes
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    The smallest puff of air through the quarter-open windows was a zephyr.  (source)
    zephyr = gentle, welcome breeze
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    Euroclydon, nevertheless, is a mighty pleasant zephyr to any one in-doors, with his feet on the hob quietly toasting for bed.  (source)
    zephyr = pleasant breeze
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    The imposing desolation was barren of any animals except for a bird gliding on the zephyrs.  (source)
    zephyrs = slight winds
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    A delicious zephyr played along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and wafted from shore to shore the sweet perfume of plants, mingled with the fresh smell of the sea.  (source)
    zephyr = gentle breeze
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    Still, the Tankadere was so light, and her fine sails caught the fickle zephyrs so well, that, with the aid of the currents John Bunsby found himself at six o'clock not more than ten miles from the mouth of Shanghai River.  (source)
    zephyrs = slight winds
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    I couldn't, not with my hands trembling like saplings in a summer zephyr.  (source)
    zephyr = wind
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    Did she come or go, the birds ruffled their wings in greeting; the unruly winds sank to cooling zephyrs; the white lotus rose from the water's depth to look at her; the solemn river loitered on its way; the palm-trees, nodding, shook all their plumes; and they seemed to say, this one, I gave her of my grace; that, I gave her of my brightness; the other, I gave her of my purity: and so each as it had a virtue to give.  (source)
    zephyrs = gentle breezes
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    This was Bernini's tribute to the second element ....Air ....an ethereal zephyr blown from angel's lips.  (source)
    zephyr = gentle wind
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    As for Hetty, her feet rested on a cloud, and she was borne along by warm zephyrs; she had forgotten her rose-coloured ribbons; she was no more conscious of her limbs than if her childish soul had passed into a water-lily, resting on a liquid bed and warmed by the midsummer sun-beams.  (source)
    zephyrs = gentle breezes
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    He felt a zephyr curling about his cheek, and turned.  (source)
    zephyr = gentle breeze
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    There was eternal spring, and placid zephyrs with warm Blasts soothed the flowers born without seed.  (source)
    zephyrs = gentle breezes
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A gentle zephyr rustled through the meadow, carrying the sweet scent of wildflowers.
zephyr = a slight wind
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    But how ...I mean, I guess you weren't born in a hospital.... I appeared on my father's doorstep, in a golden cradle, carried down from Olympus by Zephyr the West Wind.  (source)
    Zephyr = Anglicized form of Zephyrus, the mythological Greek god who personifies the west wind
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    I heard the thunder, then the whistle of the Low-country Zephyr as it approached the trestle that crossed the Ashley River.  (source)
    Zephyr = the name of a train
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    What do you want for fifty bucks—a Zephyr?  (source)
    Zephyr = a brand of car
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    "Yeah, Zephyr's a big improvement," Fang said.  (source)
    Zephyr = a name in this novel
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    The mourners came in a Ford Zephyr and a Transit van.  (source)
    Zephyr = a brand of car
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    During the mysterious trip from the island of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French brig of war, Le Zephyr, having encountered the brig L'Inconstant, on which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from L'Inconstant, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, "The Emperor is well."  (source)
    Zephyr = the name of a ship
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    The 1936 four-door Lincoln Zephyr sedan moved down the winding road at a decent, if unhurried, pace.  (source)
    Zephyr = a brand of car
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    I did not even hear the lion roaring at night in the Hampton Park Zoo or the whistle of the 11:42 train, the Low-country Zephyr, speeding across the trestle on the river at the exact same time that it had every single night I had been on campus.  (source)
    Zephyr = the name of a train
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    A Lincoln Zephyr, silvery and low, whisked by.  (source)
    Zephyr = a brand of car
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    "Zephyr, you're with me," she said, holding out her hand.  (source)
    Zephyr = a name in this novel
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    Outside there were no other cars, no lights other than the Zephyr's.  (source)
    Zephyr = a brand of car
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    "But them"—he indicated the disappearing Zephyr—"them kind costs as much as a good size house."  (source)
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    Uh, maybe you could supervise Zephyr with setting the table?  (source)
    Zephyr = a name in this novel
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