How to Use windbreaker in a Sentence

windbreaker

noun
  • One windbreaker was blown more than 60 miles away in the storm.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2023
  • There’s a white man with a blue windbreaker who might be there to help.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Dressed in a red windbreaker and brown beanie, Lars Nielsen was out for a walk on a crisp spring day.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This windbreaker will help keep the cool air from cutting the fun short.
    Dana Holmes, CNN Underscored, 18 Aug. 2020
  • And what’s more camp than wearing a windbreaker to a black-tie event?
    Victoria Hunt, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
  • In the clip, White donned Max's '80s-style windbreaker and red ponytail.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • But McAuliffe, in dress shirt, windbreaker and slacks, was not content to wave.
    Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Qaderi had arrived for the tour wearing a black windbreaker and a green linen dress.
    Sarah Chatta, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • As the band played the anthem, Parkway’s coaches stood at the end of the line in black windbreakers, their hands over their hearts.
    Knowles Adkisson, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The top layer serves as a windbreaker that beads up moisture and wicks it away.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 10 June 2021
  • Ianelli has plans for a windbreaker, a wool cap and beanie that will be made in Brooklyn, and a field watch.
    Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 11 Sep. 2015
  • Short-sleeve styles are cool enough to wear on sunny spring days or paired with a light windbreaker.
    Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Think of this as an even warmer and burlier version of your windbreaker.
    John Thompson, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The man wore a baseball cap with a block M, dark sunglasses and a blue windbreaker.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2020
  • She was last known to be wearing a green windbreaker jacket, green pants and white shoes.
    Anna Beahm, AL.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Davis wore a blue windbreaker with the Mothers United logo, as did the others on the tour.
    Mark Pazniokas, courant.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Dean stands to West’s right sporting a flat bill hat from MWA, his label, and a slick black windbreaker.
    Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2023
  • One of them, Meena Ayad Rawandozi, wore a blue windbreaker and a baseball cap over her long, straight hair.
    New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Or trade in your go-to windbreaker for a lightweight denim trench.
    Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
  • As his health aide put a windbreaker on his shoulders to shield him from a light rain, Lee said a loss of income could mean the lost of his home.
    Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Dressed in a Navy blue windbreaker, Bynum appears decades younger than a man born in the middle of the Great Depression.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The suspect was described as an Asian male with black hair in his mid-20s, wearing a black windbreaker and black pants.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Well maybe the pullover windbreaker is the secret to getting guys to be active on defense.
    Gary Bedore and Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 16 Jan. 2018
  • David’s windbreaker features an owl insignia, the symbol of the club.
    Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Charlie Strong, for one, would have loved an Alamo Bowl windbreaker.
    Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Next to Hatch is Orangerine Barrs, a convivial man of 80 in a sharp windbreaker.
    Mike Sutter, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
  • Just layer a leather jacket or windbreaker on top to stay warm.
    Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
  • For his journey, Lee dressed like an action figure, the hood of his black windbreaker pulled tight.
    Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Montana jogs toward the sideline and slaps hands with a portly blond man in a windbreaker, then comes back to the huddle.
    Tim Layden, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • He was last seen wearing dark athletic pants, black athletic shoes with a white logo, a dark sweatshirt or windbreaker, and a dark hat.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024

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