Sentence examples for wind chop from inspiring English sources
This year, it's so sparse it's letting in the wind chop".
And no view feels grander than that from the plastic perch of a Jet Ski or other personal watercraft, with adrenaline coursing through your veins as you rip through wind chop at 50 miles per hour before coming to rest under the curving span of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
The women racing today, for roughly two hours, had to contend physically and psychologically not only with the elements — a strong opposing current, wind chop on the surface, a blazing sun, water high in bacteria — but also with one another, ceaselessly, right up to the last hundredth of a second.
To make things even sweeter, the jetties for the ferry landing knock down the wind chop at the launch and clean up the waves.
Italy, 1962: "In the late afternoon, when the feral cats were sunning themselves on the rocks, a cool spring wind chopped the surface of the sea and Pasquale retreated to the piazza to smoke alone, before the fishermen came to drink.
In winter, high winds chop the water into an opaque froth; summertime drives the temperatures above 120 degrees, hammering crews and delicate electronics.
Zinke responded that solar energy requires hundreds of thousands of acres of land that lock out potential hunting and other uses and that wind "chops up birds," explaining that windmill blades kill nearly 1.5 million birds and bats annually.
In the old Final Cut, if you dragged Clip A so that it overlapped part of Clip B, even briefly, you wound up chopping away the covered-up piece of Clip B. But now, the timeline sprouts enough new parallel "tracks" to keep both of the overlapping clips.
A northeast wind blew chop across the water, but the forecast said it would die.
(James Surowiecki, The New Yorker) E. Cheryl's mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.
Worse, when a depressed Tris decides to chop off her long hair by herself, she winds up with a sophisticated pixie cut a la Jean Seberg in Breathless.
