wind machine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“There were points on Papa Westray when we had to use a wind machine because it was too calm and sunny,” says Saoirse.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2024
Corteva researchers test the strength of new hybrids by exposing them to gusts of up to 160 kilometers per hour from a wind machine.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 25, 2023
Mr. Johnson offered a pheasant as a target, but Mr. Parker found it too realistic, so he set up red and yellow balls, buoyed up by a wind machine.
From New York Times • May 31, 2018
There’s not even a wind machine to change up how her hair is falling.
From Slate • Nov. 1, 2017
“Then you have to get some artificial grass so it stays the same color throughout the whole picture, and finally you have to get a wind machine so you can make the grass sway.’
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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