Sentence examples for prevailing windward from inspiring English sources

Use 4 nails per shingle and 6 nails on the prevailing windward sides of the roof, as wind resistance nailing.

Smaller buildings are often designed for cross ventilation by prevailing breezes with flow entering a windward opening and exhausting through a leeward opening.

The battlecruisers under my command found themselves, in view of the prevailing [East-North-East] wind, in the windward position and so in an unfavourable situation from the outset".

Much of Epirus lies on the windward side of the Pindus Mountains and hence receives the prevailing winds off the Ionian Sea (Ióvio Pélagos), with the result that it receives more rainfall than does any other region of mainland Greece.

The names of the groups, Windward and Leeward, reflect the importance to the region of the prevailing easterly trade winds.

Analysis to date has revealed that: (i) smaller objects can be expected to corrode faster because of a greater capture efficiency of salt aerosols; (ii) objects exposed to faster wind speeds and aerosols will corrode faster; and (iii) objects in the lee of prevailing winds from an aerosol source will corrode faster than objects on the windward side of an aerosol source.

The Figure  5 topology is incompatible with the prevailing speciation model for Moorean and Tahitian Partula that views all congeners on each Windward Island as the product of a single colonization event: a Leeward Island source for Moorea and a single Moorean source for the subsequent colonization of Tahiti [ 49].

The larger part of the English fleet was then at Plymouth, dead to leeward, but by a neat maneuver was able to get to the windward, or upwind, side of the enemy (i.e., west of the Armada, given the prevailing west winds) and hence gain the tactical initiative.

Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.

Is that the prevailing view?

The voters are prevailing.