Sentence examples for windscreen wiper from inspiring English sources
noun
A device used to clear rain and dirt from a windscreen; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade; a windshield wiper.
What is she supposed to do – hide behind the windscreen wiper?
It had no heating, no stereo, one windscreen wiper and, towards the end of its short but joyous life in my hands, no starter motor.
Although best known as a poet whose clear-eyed take on the everyday, dubbed "Martian" by James Fenton and described by John Carey as being like "a windscreen wiper across the eyeballs", he will next year publish his debut novel.
The car has only one windscreen wiper; its wheels are held on by three bolts, not four; the steering column is hollow; instead of long-life headlight bulbs designed to last ten years, cheaper bulbs are fitted that can be easily replaced.
Included in the collection are the world's first windscreen wiper, a miners' banner at the Woodhorn Museum, Joseph's Swan's first electric light bulbs, George Stephenson's miners' lamp, a painting by Oliver Kilbourn – one of the Ashington Group of "Pitmen Painters" - and Turbinia, once the fastest ship in the world.
I use it to draw in a crease to define eyes (just hold firm in the socket line and move like a windscreen wiper), blend my liner on the upper and lower lids, and even apply lid colour at a push.
The Land Cruiser rumbles off at 4am, its tyres bald, the windscreen wipers non-existent.
Oh!" The windscreen wipers had been chugging away evenly, now they doubled their speed.
But we all missed Ray's muffled old cassettes and annoyingly squeaky windscreen wipers.
Never mind players guilty of career-threatening tackles or swinging their elbows like windscreen wipers.
She'd say "Do your windscreen wipers" and I'd do it and they would laugh.
