Sentence examples similar to that gets wind from inspiring English sources

When serious injuries occur aboard racing boats, they generally result from a head-first encounter with an untamed mainsail boom or spinnaker pole, or from a finger or hand that gets wound into a line under load.

But you probably don't remember reading about his initial kidnapping because the Times, as well as other major outlets that got wind of the story, agreed to maintain a news blackout on the abduction, after numerous experts suggested that publicity would make Mr Rohde's captors more likely to kill him.

This is always the one that gets them most wound up.

"Bound for Glory" (MGM, 146 minutes, $24.98, PG) is one of those old movies that gets a substantial second wind from the clarity of DVD.

A lot of the people in radio feel that way, that's kind of the wind that gets put into your sails.

"There are these screens that spin, and if you've ever seen a vacuum cleaner when it picks up a string or hair that just gets wound up, it's like that," Carpenter says.

Be it that the FCC gets wind of this and holds true to their previous decisions, Sprint may have to change their game plan.

Madrid's bombings, London transport attacks, etc. etc. Basically the term has come to mean any sufficiently shocking terrorism-related event that gets an entire country wound up.

Explanations for the change differ: the FAI subsequently said that it got wind that Fifa were planning to impose Paris anyway so decided to pull a stroke on the Spanish, agreeing to their Paris proposal on the condition that the FAI got all of the gate receipts.

It was just a little over a year-and-a-half ago that we got wind that supermodel Gisele Bundchen and football player Tom Brady's Brentwood, California home was complete.

They also act as a shield against particles and other debris that gets swept up by the wind and could potentially blown into your eyes.