Sentence examples for catching the wind from inspiring English sources

"We're catching the wind with this," he said.

It sagged, then began catching the wind like a menacing sail and had to be removed.

I was sporting a cotton jacket and some old baggy pants, little realizing their capacity to become sails catching the wind.

For example, a boat can use an approaching storm to its advantage by skirting the perimeter of the front, catching the wind but avoiding the bad weather in the storm's center.

Thousands of small jelly-fish like creatures have been washing up on shore up and down the Californian coast line this week, carried by the warm currents and the creatures' sail-like fins catching the wind.

The ICG's regional man says Mr Compaoré is "the ultimate political survivor", a chameleon who has been "very good at catching the wind", sensing that his adventurous policies would not succeed for ever.

"This was a trial balloon for this type of deal, and they are not catching the winds they anticipated.

In generator side converter, the most efficient algorithms designed to track the maximum power point (MPP) for catching the maximum wind power is reviewed.

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

White and Diedrichsen [7] separated these two hypotheses with an experimental analogue of a gust of wind catching the tennis ball: the visual target, not the cursor, was suddenly shifted at movement onset.

Shortstop Derek Jeter stopped, Bellinger never reached the ball and Jeter wound up catching the ball flat-footed, disgusted that he had not just kept moving.