How to Use tailwind in a Sentence

tailwind

noun

• The big question, of course, is how long the chia tailwind might last.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 20 May 2021
• The return trip is with a tailwind, and the standard course is around a mile-and-a-half.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Its top speed, if there’s a tailwind, is about 60 miles per hour.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2021
• The airport’s windsock, seen in the video, indicates the plane had a tailwind.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• Jumping with a slight but cold tailwind, Collier landed just a few feet short of the end of the sand pit.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
• The first hour was rolling pavement with a light tailwind and clear skies, some of the easiest riding of the whole route.
  — Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 15 Aug. 2024
• That’s been a tailwind of late for its native token, Ether.
  — Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com, 29 July 2022
• That amounts to a powerful tailwind for the stock market.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• Even with a tailwind, hard work is still needed; that work just yields more reward.
  — Sendhil Mullainathan, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
• Tagovailoa and Hurts aren’t the first quarterbacks to get a huge boost from this type of tailwind.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2022
• So the reacceleration of global growth in that part of the world is likely to be a tailwind for the stock.
  — Paul J. Lim, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Her 200 heat was run into a .3 mps headwind while the other two heats had tailwinds.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 June 2018
• But gusty conditions meant a risk of windshear—a sudden tailwind could cause the plane to drop out of the sky.
  — Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2016
• Putting those two forces together, the AI tailwind is going to win hands down.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
• Still, barring any meltdown in the the housing market, there are tailwinds for these stores.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2020
• But if a headwind gives way to a tailwind, say, or if a cloudy day turns clear and the crystals of the snow shift, then advantages can, too.
  — Howard Fendrich and Pat Graham, chicagotribune.com, 31 Jan. 2022
• The jump would have broken Latin Berry's 29-year-old school record if not for a 3.0 meter-per-second tailwind.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 12 May 2018
• This will give gold a strong tailwind as the oceans of new money continue to grow still further.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• Yet the twin tailwinds of Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn will not always be there to help the Tories.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Cross your fingers for a tailwind, or only plan to tow on downhill grades.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 2 Feb. 2022
• Maybe the tailwinds from auto is just so great because of the great transition that that isn't a concern.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• These are among the story lines providing a tailwind to stocks in recent weeks.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 13 July 2022
• And somebody who might have those kind of tailwinds…that would be a huge boost to his candidacy.
  — Scott Reid, Orange County Register, 7 May 2017
• But the stationary bike-maker clearly has its eyes set on the next phase of its growth, once the tailwind of the pandemic fades.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2020
• One of the best soccer venues in North America provides a brisk tailwind.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
• The massive tailwind that spawned the real estate price tsunami is over.
  — James Berman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The ever-merry flight attendants wish us good morning, and share the news: thanks to a strong tailwind, the flight is ahead of schedule.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
• That's eight regular-sized rate cuts, all of which should help provide some kind of a tailwind to the economy.
  — Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
• And moreover, Barua said, inflation will be both a headwind and tailwind to holiday sales.
  — Alexandra Pastore, WWD, 17 Sep. 2024
• The bicyclist’s paradox Bier points out in his paper that the same tailwind would have been a headwind on McLaughlin's descent; the question, therefore, is whether the strong tailwind effect on climbs was greater than the headwind on descents.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024