Sentence examples for wind flattened from inspiring English sources

The wind flattened the tall dry grass next to the pillars in a dead shout that told him not a thing that would help.

Beautiful in that the strong northwest wind flattened out the spray into rippling sheets of sideways moving rainbows; disappointing in that, because of the wind, the water did not form that classic, fountain-like column seen in so many photographs, calendars and postcards.

But the heavy wind flattened it".

Strong winds flattened banana crops and houses flooded as the river burst its banks.

In 1999 a freak summer storm, with 90-mile-an-hour winds, flattened an estimated 25 million trees over half a million acres in the Arrowhead.

As 100mph winds flattened trees, brought down power lines and damaged homes, the crew of a Dover lifeboat risked their lives to save people on a ship stranded in the English Channel.

The winds flattened hundreds of acres of corn in North Livermore, and throughout the state, there was heavy damage to the apple crop.

Every night the Vietnam War was on our TV, black and white images of soldiers running with machine guns through grasses wind-flattened by a helicopter.

6 Sweeping north-west, the strengthening winds flatten an entire neighbourhood between Penn Lane and Santa Fe Avenue.

Monet may have had a genius for painting light, but Renoir also painted light, as well as humidity hanging in the air, wind flattening grass, briskly moving water and leaves whose textures change with both distance and variety.

As if being hit by 200-mile-an-hour winds that flattened everything they hit and snapped trees like toothpicks wasn't already chaotic.