Sentence examples for vane from inspiring English sources
'vane' is a correct and usable word in written English
A 'vane' is a flat, vertical surface that is often attached to a rotating rod or spindle and used to indicate wind direction or provide propulsion. It can also refer to a blade or similar structure that is used to catch the wind and rotate a windmill or turbine. Example: The weather vane on top of the barn indicated that the wind was coming from the west.
OLLANTA HUMALA is Latin America's political weather vane.
In his withdrawal speech he called for an end to party bickering and endorsed Mitt Romney, whom he described last October as a "perfectly lubricated weather vane" on important issues.
First, it is a weather vane for state capitalism, a leading privatiser in the 1990s that is now forcing its biggest mining company, Vale, to keep workers it does not need, and obliging a bunch of smaller companies to embark on subsidised consolidation.
Everybody from its sponsors to its opponents regards Proposition 23 as a weather vane for subsequent energy politics elsewhere.
Such devices consist of a rotor, which may have up to 20 essentially flat sheet-metal blades and a tail vane that keeps the rotor facing into the wind by swiveling the entire rotor assembly.
Reciprocating pumps include piston, plunger, and diaphragm types; rotary pumps include gear, lobe, screw, vane, and cam pumps.
Mr Gingrich, for example, delights his crowds by belittling Mr Romney as "little Food Stamp" next to Mr Obama's "big Food Stamp"; Mr Santorum calls him a "well-oiled weather-vane".All this prevents Mr Romney from following his preferred strategy.
They are normally powered by a rotary-vane type of air motor.
Reciprocating piston and rotary-vane pumps are also widely used for producing vacuum.
Vane-type compressors are used to pump gases.
The independent introductions were by Kirkpatrick (1983) in Australia, Ackery and Vane-Wright (1984) in Britain, Margules et al. (1988) in Australia, and Rebelo and Siegfried (1990) in South Africa.
