Sentence examples for gauge the wind from inspiring English sources

You've got to throw some grass in the air pretty often to gauge the wind.

To gauge the wind, Rock's caddie occasionally threw a few blades of grass in the air, but really, all he had to do was see which way Rock's hair was blowing.

John Nasuta blew a puff of steamy breath into the beam of his flashlight to gauge the wind direction, scanned the surrounding blackness and then stepped in a fresh saucer of cow manure.

Many coaches have never tried icing a kicker, theorizing that the last thing they wanted was to give N.F.L. kickers — who last year converted 84.5percentt of field-goal attempts — a practice swing with the opportunity to gauge the wind and turf conditions.

Jack E. Cermak, an engineer who was among the first to use a wind tunnel to gauge the wind's impact on skyscrapers and who did consulting work on the World Trade Center and the Sears Tower, among other projects, died Aug. 21 at his home in Fort Collins, Colo.

They failed to gauge the wind correctly and the gas blew back on their own soldiers.

The eldest of four children, Cantlay has never been one to gauge the winds of public opinion before deciding what to do.

Ultimately, Clijsters prevailed, which may have had less to do with gauging the wind than with her age (27) and Williams's (30).

"If I was prepared, I might have been able to catch it," said Matsui, who blamed himself for not properly gauging the wind.

Roddick's agent, Donald Dell, gauged the winds of public opinion correctly in an e-mail message after Roddick fell to Federer by 16-14 in the decisive fifth set.

I sat on the hood of the HiLux, as Levi shot a bearing to the target with his compass, and gauged the winds by the smoke blowing off the trash pit.