Sentence examples for as a windscreen from inspiring English sources

It was so chilly and blustery on the plaza Tuesday evening that my first impulse was to use them as a windscreen, then huddle against them for warmth.

The passive monitor, which has been previously described, samples nicotine from ambient air.[ 26, 27] A 4-cm-diameter polystyrene cassette holds a filter treated with sodium bisulfate and a membrane filter functions as a windscreen.

But bullets they fired at the vehicle lodged in a tyre and the van's armour as well as smashing a windscreen.

Although best known as a poet whose clear-eyed take on the everyday, dubbed "Martian" by James Fenton and described by John Carey as being like "a windscreen wiper across the eyeballs", he will next year publish his debut novel.

As viewed through a windscreen, the Hill Country seems full of plump oak trees and well-watered meadows, almost European in aspect.

He could not even choose where to direct the bombing of North Vietnam, since, as he growled in his memoirs, "this or that target was not to be hit for this or that nebulous non-military reason".General Westmoreland himself was the reverse of nebulous: tall, well-eyebrowed, jut-chinned, and with an impressive scar on his left cheek from hurtling through a windscreen as a child.

I'm trying not to cry, as my knuckles whiten on the dashboard of a vintage Ferrari with a windscreen so low it might as well not exist.

But many things that riders will want included are only offered as options, like a center stand, heated grips, side panniers and a top box, as well as a taller windscreen.

But many things that riders will want included are only offered as options, like a center stand, heated grips, side panniers and a top box, as well as a taller windscreen.

The Cypress Cove Nudist Resort & Spa in Florida, for example, began in the 1960s as "basically a lakefront with a windscreen," says Ted Hadley, its owner.

It's a windscreen.