Example Sentences

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Alison Fure, 68, is petitioning Kingston Council to begin phasing out plastic decorative items, including ornaments, flowers, and windmills, on graves.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

They’d landed on the greatest incubator of speedskating talent anywhere outside the land of tulips and windmills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

There are windmills to slay, crises to fabricate, rings to kiss.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

It described its thinly profitable gas turbines as “stabilizing” and seemed to want to call more attention to windmills.

From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025

He was ever fearful of what lay in the shadows, and that ever-present dread, combined with his constant tilting at windmills, exhausted him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady