WINDY in a Sentence

Learn WINDY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
22 example sentences for WINDY, such as:
1. The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners.
2. It was so windy that the branches were scraping against the window panes.
3. When I rode up to the Shimerdas' one bright windy afternoon in April, Yulka ran out to meet me.
4. As we walked together up the windy street, Lena wiped her eyes with the back of her woollen glove.
5. It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of WINDY
windy
 a.  not practical or realizable; speculative
 a.  abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The march afternoon was windy and cold, and Scarlett pulled the lap robe high under her arms as she drove out the Decatur road toward Johnnie Gallegher's mill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  Scarlett's eyes went unwillingly to the miserable group gnawing on the ham and she thought of the sick man lying in the windy shack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
4  Again Scarlett was back in the windy orchard of Tara and there was the same look in Rhett's eyes that had been in Ashley's eyes that day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  She was like the revolutionist at fifty: not afraid of death, but bored by the probability of bad steaks and bad breaths and sitting up all night on windy barricades.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  We burrowed down in the straw and curled up close together, watching the angry red die out of the west and the stars begin to shine in the clear, windy sky.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
7  When I rode up to the Shimerdas' one bright windy afternoon in April, Yulka ran out to meet me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
8  As we walked together up the windy street, Lena wiped her eyes with the back of her woollen glove.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
9  The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
10  It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
12  She followed the track, and the hammering grew nearer, in the silence of the windy wood, for trees make a silence even in their noise of wind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  The solitary figure who walked this beat took no notice of the windy tune still played on the dead heathbells.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
14  At this time it was in her view a windy, wet place, in which a person might experience much discomfort, lose the path without care, and possibly catch cold.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
15  And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  A feather floats about on the air, especially on a windy day. If there is a shower of rain, the feather will get wet and heavy with water, and then it will sink straight to the ground.
2  It was so windy that the branches were scraping against the window panes.