windmill
Example Sentences
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“My goal is to not let any windmill be built.”
From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026
"I grew up with the project of restoring the windmill."
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
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
The animals were hard at work building yet another windmill; when that one was finished, so it was said, the dynamos would be installed.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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