Sentence examples for patch of air from inspiring English sources

This is, in fact, the most perilous patch of air.

If the air resistance isn't too strong and the eddies in the turbulent air change fast enough, then a droplet won't immediately slow down as it enters a slow patch of air.

Likewise, a slow-moving drop won't instantly speed up as it moves into a fast moving patch of air but will continue to move slower than the air for a while.

It may help them snuggle down for quiet time or just help get through a bumpy patch of air or a tedious part of the drive.

His hands cut angular patches of air while he talks.

The composer Kohji Setoh, on his laptop, contributed jittery samples and micro-fragments of speech, then long patches of air escaping, followed by a climax of crashing dissonances.

I am contemptuous of patches of retrograde air, air that is not crammed with all the information in the world, all of it sitting there patiently waiting for the few keystrokes that might summon it.

The resulting shuddering, lurching and ever-changing perception of gravity is something similar to the feeling you get sitting in an airplane during a patch of heavy air turbulence.

The "wing tuck" technique is typically employed as the birds cross over rising patches of warm air, which any good glider pilot knows are usually the most turbulent.

An important example of such a composite surface is one composed of patches of both air and solid.

Dust devils spin into life when a difference in temperature, like that created by the edge of a hot asphalt road meeting a cooler patch of sand, sets the air rising and whirling into a funnel.