get wind of

Example Sentences

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“If the Chinese audience get wind of such a protest documentary, they would of course be curious what exactly happened in Hong Kong and could start comparing China’s official narrative and the Western narrative, which is ideologically too risky for China,” said Zhu Lin, who teaches TV and film directing at China’s Liaoning University.

From Washington Post

“I didn’t get wind of the casting call until around November,” he said.

From Washington Times

For their part, the Haredim have been known to hold large protests, block intersections and even turn violent whenever they get wind of any possible retreat from the state’s longstanding deference to religious orthodoxy: the opening of a road near a Haredi neighborhood to Sabbath traffic, or a Supreme Court intervention against them on the draft, or the holding of a Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem, or an archaeological excavation of an ancient Jewish cemetery.

From New York Times

Pretty soon, local media get wind of the discovery, then national media.

From Salon

Microsoft announced that Xbox Game Pass had passed 15 million subscribers in September, and that number is expected to grow as more people eventually get a hold of the new Xbox consoles, or get wind of the Xbox Game Pass streaming service for Android phones, where users can play almost the same library of games streamed via a phone app.

From Seattle Times