windward

in a sentence

Boy, you got to put ash and lime always windward to the tree.  (source) Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die, 1972

Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.  (source) T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922

The wind whips up another spray of sand off the shallow, windward slopes.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

"There may be a settlement on the windward side of the island, then," said the captain.†  (source) Kenneth Oppel, Airborn, 2004

Paul flicked it and saw a neat shed addition which ran the length of the house on its windward side.†  (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987

Signal Bristol and Fife to stay to windward of us.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that leeward and windward side were clearly differentiated.†  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

You can see by the way it's wind-cut that's the windward face.†  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

Stuart and I gathered up our boots and all our clothing and then positioned ourselves on the windward side of the shelter.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

On the wall beyond the counter a list of nearby "Out Isles" was next to a larger column of the well-known Leeward and Windward Islands from St. Kitts and Nevis south to the Grenadines.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum, 1990

Not the Windward or Leeward Island colonies, mark you, but within, of course, the Greater of the two Antilles (while the precision of my prose may be, at times, laborious, it is necessary that I identify myself to you clearly).†  (source) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 1970

Fancy feeding under bushes on the windward side of a wood!†  (source) Richard Adams, Watership Down, 1972

The snow had rizen onto the windward side of rocks and trees, where it gleamed like lacquer.†  (source) Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders, 2001