Sentence examples for windward with from inspiring English sources

It is windward with respect to the northeastern trade winds and receives about 44 inches (1,125 mm) of rain annually.

The results suggest that the erosion behavior was determined by the weak needling structure of the leading edge windward with small thickness in the severe environment of the plume impingement.

Russell had not broken the French line and her opponent Témeraire got the better of her, knocking away a topmast and escaping to windward with Trajan and Eole.

Over Windward Burgers with guacamole and Stray Dog hot dogs topped with cheese, bacon and caramelized onions, we discussed our day's plans: some late-afternoon beach time for the girls in South Haven, an hour's drive north, while I learned about the area's history at the Michigan Maritime Museum.

At the completion of the second windward leg, with the race at the midway point, the lead was a whopping 63 seconds.

Midway up the first windward leg, with Prada's crew regaining its composure after a harsh lesson in starting-line tactics by the clinical Kiwis, the Italians' charge came to a crashing halt when they hooked a big piece of plastic, with a long length of rope attached, to the blunt, leading edge of their keel bulb some 12 feet below the waterline.

Greater levels of disturbance were observed on windward surfaces with steeper slopes.

When a sound source is installed in the windward direction with respect to the radar, the antenna beam pointed in the windward direction is the optimal condition.

On Oahu, 20 (77%) of the infections occurred among residents of 2 nearly adjacent communities on the windward side with a combined population of 25,709 (<3% of the island's total).

Wind tunnel experiments were conducted to obtain mean pressure distributions of critical areas of the building under different wind directions with four different opening configurations, namely, an enclosed building, a building with one windward opening, a building with one windward opening and one sidewall opening, and a building with one windward opening and two sidewall openings.

Wild Horses emerged from a midstretch pack to run second, with Windward Passage third in the field of 11.