windmill
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He made a side-to-side move at the rim on his penultimate attempt, then sprinted the length of the court and soared for a windmill jam on his last effort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
“My goal is to not let any windmill be built.”
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
In laying out the workings of a traditional Dutch windmill, for instance, he conjures a fictional miller, “a congenial fellow” who “knocks out his pipe on the door frame” before getting to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
They have the largest wooden windmill in America.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025
They’d left the windmill, so they would have to travel until they found more water.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
Many technologies can generate low-frequency noise, including ventilation systems, heat pumps, road traffic and windmills.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
For those wanting to stay somewhere away from the norm, there are choices around the UK ranging from lighthouses and windmills to prison cells and tree houses.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
They’d landed on the greatest incubator of speedskating talent anywhere outside the land of tulips and windmills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
There are windmills to slay, crises to fabricate, rings to kiss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
They floated high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
As that set ended, with Djokovic reaching a shot ball and replying at an impossible angle, he windmilled his arms and then pointed to his ear.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
He slipped and windmilled his arms to regain his balance, which made him think about how humans balance ourselves.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021
Dark-eyed, dressy little town dolls and dutch-bobbed blondies from windmilled countrysides.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
What was left of the propeller windmilled as air rushed over it.
From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2018
I windmilled my arm like I was Pete Townshend slashing a guitar.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
Bae caught teammate Jason Delay chugging toward home and third base coach Mike Rabello’s right arm windmilling.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
In the first few minutes he was windmilling his arms to get Chelsea's fans behind their team and he was animated throughout.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023
Now, in Linares, Dominguín played to the crowd right away with ostentatious stunts, dropping to his knees in the sand and windmilling his cape as the first bull he faced leaped by.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
A few relievers stretched in the bullpen, swinging their legs, windmilling their arms in the humid air.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2021
A uniformed air raid warden starts blowing his whistle, windmilling his arm, directing people toward an open doorway in a stone building.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
