cross wind
or cross·wind
a wind blowing across the course or path of a ship, aircraft, etc.
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How to use cross wind in a sentence
Netanyahu is like a man driving a car with poor wheel alignment in a gusty cross wind.
A cross wind helped it along into the rough grass, leaving him a nasty second shot over shrubbery and trees.
Fore! | Charles Emmett Van LoanIn such a cross wind station alone sufficed to decide the race, and Boyd won easily.
Boating | W. B. WoodgateLet me give him this piece of advice: very rarely slice as a remedy against a cross wind.
The Complete Golfer [1905] | Harry VardonBetween fifteen and twenty minutes, if I don't hit too much cross wind.
General Max Shorter | Kris Ottman Neville
I tell you, a compass doesnt help much when theres a cross-wind.
The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss
British Dictionary definitions for crosswind
/ (ˈkrɒsˌwɪnd) /
a wind that blows at right angles to the direction of travel
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