trade winds

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Winds that blow steadily from east to west and toward the equator over most of the Torrid Zone. The trade winds are caused by hot air rising at the equator, with cool air moving in to take its place from the north and from the south. The winds are deflected westward because of the Earth's west-to-east rotation. Compare antitrades.

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How to use trade winds in a sentence

Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
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Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
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Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.
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Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.
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The Canterbury Tales was, Strohm writes, “one of the volumes around which the new trade would organize itself.”
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He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.
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From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
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From early morn to early morn again, the hot winds continued, and the air was surcharged with the smell of burning plants.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
In the next two days he re-wrote the twenty thousand, and on the fifth day he tore it into shreds and threw it to the winds.
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The result of the restoration of trade, banking, and credit to earlier and more normal conditions has been steadily apparent.
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