wind

• wind up

  And it fair put the wind up Rex Mundi.

• wind speed

  The wind speed and direction, and the cloud height and type were major hurdles to be overcome each hour.

• wind power

  But even wind power, as heated debates at various public enquiries have revealed, is not without its critics.

• wind blew

  Outside, the wind blew snow over the gravestones, and there was ice on our windows.

• strong wind

  There was a strong wind blowing that day too, out of a dark, cloudy sky.

• gust of wind

  A gust of wind roared across the plain and the insect, blown by it, took wing.

• wind out

  The words and the theatrical element have in a sense taken the musical wind out of your sails.

• wind had dropped

  The wind had dropped and air was fresh and crisp.

• wind and rain

  Over the millennia, the wind and rain destroyed them.

• wind was blowing

  A wild, stormy wind was blowing, and in the garden I passed the wreck of the great tree.

• wind blowing

  There was a strong wind blowing that day too, out of a dark, cloudy sky.

• high wind

  He said, ‘In a high wind, the cloak will pull you over.

• when the wind

  The sheeting — you know, the polythene sounded like whips cracking when the wind got into it.

• get wind

  Does it get wind, if so, where from (north, south, east or west)?

• solar wind

  When the solar wind is weak the upwind magnetopause can lie 100 Jupiter equatorial radii (R J ) from Jupiter.