Sentence examples for off the windscreen from inspiring English sources

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On the surface Dylan was calm, but occasionally the mask slipped – like when a housekeeper offered him her car to tour the island and he got frustrated trying to peel promotional stickers reading "Help Dylan Sink the Isle of Wight" off the windscreen.

Both of these strategies increased task loading, but the problem was exacerbated by light reflecting off the windscreen, which restricted visibility even further.

On one occasion, when the tax disc had fallen off the windscreen, she became hysterical because she thought my mother would be arrested.

The Marchioness of Northampton suggested using toothpaste to clean flies off the windscreen while Lady Cobbold recommended paper knickers because "it saves washing and they are good for lighting the fire".

Early rising, or "scraping the ice off the windscreen on a winter's morning", as David Cameron put it in his uninspiring speech about hard work at the Tory party conference last week, is meant to be a good thing.

And in an outdoor sport you are out in the depths of winter, you've got the lights on in the car because it's pitch black outside, you chip the ice off the windscreen and then, stupidly, you jack the heaters up so your little car is like a warm oven when you arrive at the water.

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Even my costume can't hack the pace; as we cross the final flyover my moustache takes off, landing on the windscreen of the car behind.

Only two hours previously, in one of the most surreal moments of the rally, a mechanic offered them a bag of rubies for their beaten-up Passat, despite the fact that both its bumpers have been shorn off and the windscreen is cracked.

Instead there's a sliding panel in front of the windscreen to access various reservoirs.

The other camera was mounted at the base of the windscreen looking over the nose.

Shove the pin into the nozzle of the windscreen wiper.

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