Sample Sentences for
windward
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    Boy, you got to put ash and lime always windward to the tree.  (source)
    windward = the direction or side from which the wind is coming
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    Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.  (source)
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    You can see by the way it's wind-cut that's the windward face.†  (source)
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    The wind whips up another spray of sand off the shallow, windward slopes.†  (source)
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    Signal Bristol and Fife to stay to windward of us.†  (source)
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    The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that leeward and windward side were clearly differentiated.†  (source)
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    Stuart and I gathered up our boots and all our clothing and then positioned ourselves on the windward side of the shelter.†  (source)
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    Fancy feeding under bushes on the windward side of a wood!†  (source)
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    "Do you know about the Leeward and Windward Islands?" he asked me.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    It had been arranged that we would leave Spanish Town immediately after the ceremony and spend some weeks in one of the Windward Islands, at a small estate which had belonged to Antoinette's mother.†  (source)
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    The noble Mouse would creep away from the merry circle at the camp fire and sit down by the dragon's head, well to the windward to be out of the way of his smoky breath.†  (source)
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