windbreak

Example Sentences

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Check the temperature of the sand and, if there's no natural shade, try to create some with a beach umbrella, sun tent or windbreak.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

If your balcony is on the breezy side, you can protect your plants by putting them behind tightly baled straw, or you can create a windbreak by securing burlap to the railing.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

If you're outside and caught in the storm, find shelter and try to stay dry and cover all exposed body parts, exercise or build a lean-to, windbreak or snow cave and fire for heat.

From Fox News • Oct. 26, 2021

In addition to its admittedly informal aesthetic charms, functionally, Amur maple makes a good windbreak, helps control soil erosion and provides valuable habitat for wildlife.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2021

It was different from the meadow copses they had left: a narrow belt of trees, four or five hundred yards long but barely fifty wide; a kind of windbreak common on the downs.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams