Sentence examples for zephyrs from inspiring English sources

A favourite motif for the American weather vane was the angel Gabriel blowing his trumpet, often executed in a style that survives from the puffing zephyrs of Classical art.

Something in the summer air, in the balmy zephyrs of Suffolk, has persuaded him that his body has not gone to ruin at 50, but is in the peak of fitness.

Cypresses have one direction, up, but sometimes desert zephyrs tousle one so that a branch or two will stick straight out — a hatchling fallen from the nest, a broken leg a limp will not forget, a lock of cowlicked hair that spurns the comb.

And you say that the wind is blowing from the northwest, which means that there must be a place called northwest that it's blowing from — being blown, I suppose, by one of those little fat-cheeked zephyrs that used to be drawn on maps.

But another effect of the radio is to work people up to an incredible state of alarm many hours in advance of the blow, while they are still fanned by the mildest zephyrs.

Franklin, for whom Nature was the mildest Dame, insisted on its being open, so that the healthy zephyrs could ventilate the lungs.

But if California is to meet its Renewables Portfolio Standard, a requirement for a third of its power to be generated by renewable sources by 2020, the state needs to tap every zephyr it can even distant, costly ones.There is a far larger prize to be found; all that Californians and others have to do is look straight up.

Green shoot rating 3 out of 5 Mergers and acquisitions have been all but non-existent since the credit crunch took hold, but figures from the Zephyr database, which tracks such activity, shows the value of deals in the first three months of this year up 40% on 2008 levels to £214bn.

The result is a plane that can, potentially, stay aloft for months though its longest test-run so far is a fortnight.The Zephyr team achieved all this by following the principle of "adding lightness"—jettisoning anything that did not help make the aircraft fly higher and longer.

(The balloon will then follow Zephyr 3 up, so the mission could also break the altitude record for a manned balloon).As Mr Kelleher points out, airship technology is less mature than that of UAVs.

Such fuel cells can, however, power a UAV for only a couple of weeks, as the hydrogen they carry eventually runs out.According to Chris Kelleher, a project manager at QinetiQ, a British defence contractor that is building a UAV called the Zephyr 3, another option worth examining is super-efficient batteries, probably derivatives of the lithium-based batteries used in mobile phones.