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How to use the word Downwind in a Sentence?

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Fukushima is a better analogy than Chernobyl, in this event, evacuations may be required for tens of kilometers around the plant, especially downwind. In the middle of a war those would be exceptionally dangerous.

James Acton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I knew if it was a little downwind, I could take a unique line ... and I said to myself, ’all right, I have to aim at the green, so I did.

Bryson DeChambeau

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Easy to make doubles out here, it was maybe a little anxious out there maybe, trying to get myself in a good spot. The finishing stretch is hard. I don’t care if it’s windy or not or downwind, it’s just going to be hard out there.

Joel Dahmen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a lot of coal there and there's a lot of people who live in the region and downwind of the region.

Jonathan Buonocore

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Just hit it a little fat, and it's got to get up in the air to get the wind, it was downwind and didn't get the wind because I hit it fat and it went in the water.

Patrick Cantlay

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It was a good race for us today, right from the start, but the key for us was being able to pass AkzoNobel on the first downwind, from there we could stretch.

Xabi Fernandez

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I’m not talking about car or truck traffic but pollutants that are transported by prevailing winds, for example, pollutants from a coal-fired electrical generating station are carried by prevailing winds long distances away from the plant and have an effect on air quality in a national park or other area downwind from that plant.

Jeffrey Olson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Up the railroad tracks, keep your downwind inside the gravel pit, where you from today?

Tim Kiefer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What's happening upwind strongly affects what's happening downwind.

Ian Faloona

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The 'aha' moment came when we saw how much more prevalent resistant sequences were downwind than upwind, it was not just higher in some of them—it was 4,000 percent more. It made me not want to breathe.

Greg Mayer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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