Sentence examples for windmill about from inspiring English sources

"William and the Windmill," about a young Malawian who builds a windmill from scrap metal to save his family from famine, was directed by Ben Nabors.

But even though daffodils are blooming their heads off around the windmill here, about 4,000 houses are still for rent in the Hamptons.

He got rid of three windmills about five years ago — they were too expensive to maintain, he said — and bought a solar-powered pump from an Oklahoma company called Robison Solar Systems.

The project has endured nine years of state and federal reviews and ferocious opposition from local landowners on Nantucket Sound — including the late Senator Edward Kennedy — who hate the idea of having 130 windmills, about 400 feet tall, on the horizon.

PLAYING THROUGH No Fairways, Just Greens: Where Putts Rule MINIGOLF courses have become less about windmills and more about banked shots and rolling terrain.

The original estimate for the windmills was about $200 million.

He is keen on windmills, lukewarm about nuclear plants and downright hostile to coal and oil.

The 11 windmills scattered about in one Dutch painting are a far cry from the hundreds proposed for some wind farms.

Windmills last about 60 years, longer than solar pumps, according to Brian Vick, the lead scientist for renewable energy at a federal agricultural research laboratory in Bushland, a Panhandle community.

No matter how cool LPs are, vinyl absolutely, positively will not be the industry's savior, though tilting at that windmill reveals much about the music business' continued short-sightedness.

The article about windmills, "On Energy Farms, Technology Milks the Wind" (Feb. 22), is far too optimistic about modern windmill generators.