Sentence examples for blocking the wind from inspiring English sources
The stars of each team cannot profit from their eight-man posse's blocking the wind for them or chasing down a front-runner.
Renshaw is the final man who rides ahead of Cavendish, blocking the wind before Cavendish takes off to the line alone.
I was 56 years old and gleefully blocking the wind for a fit young woman half my age, who was riding behind me toward the finish line of the very hilly, 200-mile event one day in August 2013.
For the first time, L'Alpe d'Huez has been turned into a time trial, which means every rider must go by himself, with no support from skillful teammates blocking the wind or chasing down frisky front-runners.
After analyzing dozens of broken umbrellas he'd collected from trash bins after rain storms, Hoogendoorn had an epiphany: The key to designing a better umbrella wasn't blocking the wind, but using it to his advantage.
When your playing field is water and your power source is the wind, sharing them with press boats creating wash or blocking the wind could be an advantage to some but a hindrance to others.
