Wind

The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.

As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.

The winds in Chicago are fierce.

There was a sudden gust of wind, on which spores were borne away.

The window was banging in the wind.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

the wind of a cannon ball

the wind of a bellows

After the second lap he was already out of wind.

The fall knocked the wind out of him.

to catch wind of something

Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.

Police got wind of the lottery, tried to track it down.

the wind of change

But many of those issues failed to draw Spanish voters, or even scared them, and the country’s election results went contrary to Europe’s political winds.

to pass wind

Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.

the four winds

Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.

When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; / To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! / His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, / And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.

Something higher must lie at the back of that eager response to pack-music and winded horn — something born of the smell of the good earth

"If your Majesty is ever to use the Horn," said Trufflehunter, "I think the time has now come." Caspian had of course told them of this treasure several days ago./[…]/"Then in the name of Aslan we will wind Queen Susan's Horn," said Caspian.

The boxer was winded during round two.

The hounds winded the game.

to wind thread on a spool or into a ball

Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.

Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.

Vines wind round a pole.  The river winds through the plain.

He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which[…]winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.

Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.

to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus

Gifts blind the vviſe, and bribes do pleaſe, / And vvinde all other witneſſes: […]

Were our legislature vested in the person of our prince, he might doubtless wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.

You have contrived[…]to wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.

'Tis pleasant to see what little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse

to wind a rope with twine

Quickly she slammed the door shut and panicking wound the window up as fast as her slippery fingers would allow.