How to Use vane in a Sentence

vane

noun

• The weapon is armed by a vane which spins as the bomb falls.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• The car was equipped with a tunable rear wing and aluminum vanes along the side of the car’s nose.
  — OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Its fantail spins even when the four large vanes don’t.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 22 Mar. 2020
• People signed the weather vane that sits on top of the steeple, according to Trump.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2017
• Another, equipped with a wind vane, transfers the motion of breezes to the room below.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
• There is some conjecture as to whether the vanes in a rifled slug cause the projectile to spin at all.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2022
• The angle-of-attack sensors look like wind vanes, whereas the pitot tubes look like, well, tubes.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Apr. 2019
• Instead, the two agencies said, all evidence points to a bird strike on the sensor vane.
  — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Twenty-two inch and shorter bolts are hard to see in a target, even with bright-colored vanes.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
• The sensors are vanes attached to the fuselage that indicate whether the plane is headed up or down.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
• The hair removal vanes prevented tangling around the brushroll.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Soft-fabric sheers, with translucent facings and rotatable vanes, screen the space from the street.
  — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• At the Bali airport, a vane, known as an angle of attack sensor, was replaced.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2019
• One such lore is the painting of the weather vane -- a miniature horse and rider -- on the Old Clubhouse cupola with the colors of the winning team for a year.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 19 May 2017
• It’s also equipped with the same handy hair-removal vanes as the Outsize+, above, which prevent long strands from getting tangled up in the floorhead.
  — Camryn Rabideau, wsj.com, 2 Jan. 2024
• Most of the heat that's produced by braking is dissipated through the rotor vanes.
  — Jay Leno, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2012
• To combat these concerns, cars will be forced to run 'rain vanes' on the nose of the car just in front of the base of the aeroscreen that officials believe will help wick moisture away.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2023
• The designs were inspired by the golden grasshopper vane atop the Royal Exchange in London.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• And there are active vanes that can open up in the front bumper to boost airflow to the battery and climate control system if necessary.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2018
• The wind vane of power is constantly moving, and sometimes those almost entirely down and out are the ones that truly hold the cards.
  — Jack King, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2021
• The replacement vane put onto this airplane in Bali was older than the airplane itself.
  — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• The turbo uses variable vane technology to let the engine make peak torque at 1,750 rpm.
  — Karl Brauer, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• The parts were seals on compressor stator vanes that help direct airflow inside the engine.
  — Mary Schlangenstein, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The front splitter, the hood scoop, the fender vents, the aero vanes up on the roof (that actually channel air over the wing), the winglets, the triple-tip exhaust, and the red pinstriped wheels make the Type R seem like a life-sized shout for help.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2018
• But there was no such button to simulate an angle of attack vane going wrong.
  — Author: Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2019
• One of two sensors known as angle-of-attack vanes, located near the nose of the plane, would have to malfunction or be damaged to cause the scenario suspected in the crash.
  — Nizar Manek, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
• In a similar vane, CubeSats, just like arrays of small telescopes on the ground, can survey the sky looking for a specific type of object.
  — Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2017
• For decades, this state was a reliable wind vane of American politics.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• There’s a laughing Buddha statue with four Caruso children climbing on it, a wind vane with the kids’ initials, and a favorite quote from each child inlaid in brass on the stone veranda.
  — Christina Binkley, latimes.com, 10 June 2019
• What the generic ballot has proven useful for over the years is as a sort of national weather vane -- suggesting which way the political winds are blowing, and how hard.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 May 2017

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024