How to Use windbreak in a Sentence

windbreak

noun

• We were camped on the stony shore of a large lake, using a tangle of willows as a windbreak.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 18 July 2016
• Wind: Trees can also serve as a windbreak too, as can large rocks or cliff faces.
  — Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2019
• He was last known to be wearing a red, white and blue striped windbreak with green sweatpants.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 4 Nov. 2020
• The kids bravely took turns summiting to get a quick snapshot and then ran back down to the windbreak.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
• The treetops high above formed a roof of sorts that broke up the snowfall, and a wall of chokecherry bushes made for a windbreak.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
• A horse was pastured beyond the windbreak, a line of spindly willows alongside his yard.
  — Lynn Freehill-Maye, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2016
• Also known as salt cedar, it was utilized as a windbreak and as a way to control stream-bank erosion.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
• Create a windbreak by erecting a solid-board fence, or by planting a row of thick shrubs.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2020
• When Jessup pulled over next to a windbreak of cottonwood trees, Foster felt the seconds stretch and slow.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• It was butted against a massive slab of granite that grew out of the soil and provided a windbreak and heat reflector.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2019
• Others piled up their meager belongings to make windbreaks as a storm forecast to drop 10 inches of snow on the city darkened the sky.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2020
• One of the most ancient shelters, the single wall of a lean-to serves triple duty as windbreak, fire reflector, and overhead shelter.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• The main house, guesthouse, and a garage with a small potting shed are arranged around three sides of a courtyard garden and serve as natural windbreaks to shelter it.
  — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• The tree-planting effort is intended to reforest the area and provide a windbreak for the memorial.
  — Kellie B. Gormly, Washington Post, 20 May 2017
• For hunting, this would be the perfect solution for creating a windbreak and shelter over our heads while glassing on a ridge.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2022
• To fight the dust storms that blew millions of tons of topsoil from fields, farmers learned dryland growing techniques and planted thousands of miles of trees as windbreaks, which helped stop the shifting of soil.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• They can be planted in a rock garden or perennial border, used as a windbreak or for erosion control.
  — The Pecks, OregonLive.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• Urban beekeeping is unique because cities tend to be warmer than the countryside, where there are fewer windbreaks.
  — Nicole Haase, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
• A windbreak of arborvitae has been chewed uniformly and now appear to be wearing no trousers, if that might paint a picture, full tops standing on skinny legs.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2017
• Modern methods include using no-till crops to avoid breaking up the soil, planting cover crops to hold in moisture, and once again planting windbreaks.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• In the rows where your vegetables grow, good neighbors can make all the difference by helping with everything from pest control to providing windbreaks and shade.
  — OregonLive.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Plants overwintering in pots can be sheltered a bit near a wall or windbreak, but don’t bring them inside as the interruption of dormancy may detriment their health.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2022
• Create a windbreak by erecting a solid-board fence, or by planting a row of thick shrubs. High and dry: Don’t set the pool in a low-lying area, which could result in the pool flooding with mud and debris during periods of heavy rain.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2023
• This means its facility in Texas has to include huge windbreaks—think of the enormous, sky-high protective nets at some driving ranges, but solid—in order to be able to safely stack Starships.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2020
• The women of Izu Oshima island in Japan still harvest camellia in the winter: The flowers are essential to the local economy, and the trees that bear them act as a windbreak, protecting crops from the bitter breezes rolling off the sea.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2021
• Evergreen shrubs in containers can define areas of a patio, provide privacy and shade or serve as a windbreak.
  — Bhg.com, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• After deciding to dismantle the canvas windbreak material from around the Perch, George scribbles the day’s result in his notebook.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Trees, when planted as windbreaks, can reduce the costs associated with heating buildings in winter.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 June 2019
• Elsewhere on the beach, a party of two was erecting a windbreak whose blocks of color—black currant and orange and lime—were reminiscent of a particular brand of ice lolly fondly remembered from childhood.
  — Hermione Hoby, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Congress would address grazing issues and vote to establish the Soil Conservation Service, whose measures, such as planting windbreaks and seeding grasses, did much to head off future black dusters.
  — John F. Ross, WSJ, 14 June 2018

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024