Sentence examples for using the wind to from inspiring English sources

For Swindon only a free-kick from Anton Rodgers, possibly reflecting his father Brendan's long-distance ambition at Anfield, came close to using the wind to advantage.

He points to the fragile coral reefs, the silvery-clean, life-rich water, the thousands of dhows using the wind to move them.

We're only allowed to bottom-tow because we fish under sail – we don't use machinery or engines; we drift with the tide, using the wind to direct the angle of the boat.

The New Yorker, February 10 , 1934P. 11 The knowledge that somebody has hit upon a wholly new idea of using the wind to drive a boat is most encouraging and heady.

The home side were using the wind to their advantage and almost sneaked a goal when a high in-swinging corner from Rob Milsom was cleared from the front post by Davidson.

They remain stationary by hovering with rapid fluttering or by using the wind to anchor themselves in place.

In sailing you just use the wind to push you along.

Trying to use the wind to shape a shot works best when you are going with the wind and not against it.

The first came after Wasps had lost the ball near the Chiefs' 22: Henry Slade used the wind to kick the ball 60 metres and Charles Piutau picked it up just short of his own line.

Alex Goode and Schalk Brits were both twice stripped of possession as Sarries looked to run rather than use the wind to achieve position, a tactic the Saints reversed after the break.

But neither side had scored and on a boxing-style score card, I was inclined to see that as a "10-9" lead for the Galaxy, who'd perhaps faced the notionally harder task in dealing with the RSL runners as Kyle Beckerman and Javier Morales used the wind to extend the workable space behind the LA defence.