Sentence examples for catch wind from inspiring English sources

"The semilunar valves work like a dream, catching the water as sails catch wind, closing fast and preventing any leakage.

At no point in the film, however, do we catch wind of any countervailing views.

Even a quite vigilant administration would have needed some luck to catch wind of Al Qaeda's plans.

When police authorities catch wind of a pending heist, they do not shout it from the rooftops.

A day earlier, in Longyearbyen's cosy Karls-Berger Pub, two locals catch wind of my plan to cross the mountains in search of this icy ghost.

He took his family and friends into the Nevada desert to fly a kite he had designed to catch wind energy.

One of his jobs is to catch wind-blown punts.

Houses usually burn when eaves or attic vents catch wind-driven embers.

The bishop, naturally, caught wind of it.

Jobs caught wind of the probe and called Google.

Before long, the Princetonian caught wind of the controversy.