"wind" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A confused weather department could say only that the winds were approaching gale force, and that there was no practical end in sight.
- The wind approached the boy and touched his face.
- The wind was approaching gale force and the waves became steeper, but they had little effect on the big containership.
- The plan failed when the wind disappeared completely at noon, and by 15:00 two French ships of the line had approached within gunshot.
- The wind at kickoff approached 40 miles per hour but died off after the first quarter.
- Prevailing winds approach from the south.
- The winds approached the edge of being too vicious for flight.
- On August 15, convection organized into bands, and as its winds approached hurricane strength, an eye developed within the storm.
- "We've only canceled two shows over the years, one when hurricane-force winds were approaching and the other because of the artist's illness," she said.
- There were times, in the gusts, when the wind must have approached a velocity of seventy or eighty miles an hour.
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