windsock

Example Sentences

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For one of McKay’s major numbers, a blow-up windsock man you might see promoting a business on the side of a freeway was an unexpected inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2024

"The airport’s windsock was horizontal and the aircraft was being rocked from side to side by the wind," Thomson added.

From Fox News • Feb. 23, 2022

Automation soon eliminated Mabel’s job as the airport windsock.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2021

As Booth approached the canyon, he took note that other parked helicopters were pointing different directions and saw a windsock “waving like a waffle.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2021

It was a wind that offered no relief from the heat, but it caught Lillian’s hair and pushed it softly back, an auburn shining pennant, a surrogate windsock, revealing a long, elegant neck.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy