How to Use windmill in a Sentence

windmill

1 of 2 noun

• The windmill sits on the high point of Quail Hill and was built in the mid-1800s.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 10 Nov. 2023
• The next time down the floor, Budinger had a monster windmill dunk.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
• At the end of a dusty road, beside two water tanks in the desert shrubs, a windmill spins in the breeze.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• Here the Wave are once again, tilting at a large windmill.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022
• As the film fades in, a sad John Leguizamo (dressed as a Pierrot clown) is perched in front of a windmill.
  — Stephanie Bencin, Vulture, 13 May 2021
• Even missed a windmill dunk at the end of the game that will certainly end up on Shaqtin' A Fool.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2022
• On one side of the stage is a windmill; on the other is a giant elephant.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• From the water, boaters may have seen the red house, old windmill, and cattle grazing atop the bluffs.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
• Trash clung to the scrub in the brown field surrounding the lot, fluttering in the winds that blew the turbines off a field of windmills to the west.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• Along with windmills, Ærø has one of the world’s largest solar power plants.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2023
• In one part of this border ranch, some animals once crossed to the U.S. side to drink at a windmill.
  — azcentral, 15 Apr. 2021
• Swanson hits Garland’s fifth triple of the night, then Ejiofor steals the ball and throws down a windmill dunk.
  — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2022
• Downtown, a park with a Dutch windmill and tulips attracts tourists each spring.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• Shunt windmills and solar panels all over the country to catch them?
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 21 June 2023
• Originally, the shaft was used to mill grain, thus a windmill.
  — WSJ, 11 June 2021
• One that is cool to the touch, sturdy, and can spin like a windmill during a ferocious game of flip cup.
  — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 14 June 2021
• Donkey Hodie lives in a windmill just like the one her grandfather built all those years ago.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Now the windmill is gone, the building is fenced off and the only families around are the broods of gulls, who nest on the roof and streak neighbors with guano.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
• This list wouldn’t be complete without at least one Dutch windmill.
  — Sara Lieberman, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2022
• One light set, between 5 and 10 pounds, for the Turkish get-up, windmill, renegade row, and halo.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 11 Dec. 2021
• Well windmill reach above the canopy of the hike’s granddaddy hackberry.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
• The shot then pans out to reveal a windmill, and out comes Weber, looking dashing in a suit and tie and armed with a single red rose.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Holland, Michigan, lives up to its name with banks of tulips and a towering windmill.
  — Raphael Kadushin, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2020
• Trump told Republicans at a dinner in April 2019 that the noise from windmills can cause the disease.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 20 July 2023
• Sitting atop one of the world's most famous nightclubs is a scarlet red windmill.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 4 May 2022
• Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green got countless attempts to land a windmill dunk off the backboard in the first round.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2022
• But that didn’t stop Williamson from pulling off windmill dunks during a pregame workout on Wednesday.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• An entrance to the project near the school was nixed and a windmill was reduced in height from 76 feet to 36 feet with a prohibition on a wind turbine.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• Beginning in the fifteenth century, the country’s windmills were used to pump water out of the ground using the hydraulic mechanism known as Archimedes’ screw.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Instead of fighting windmills, Quijano fights the giant white surveillance balloons that patrol the West Texas skies.
  — Luis G. Rendon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024

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windmill

2 of 2 verb

• Even with all of that prep, Cain was surprised to see Jirschele windmilling his arms.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 26 Sep. 2017
• So Pollard was at center ice windmilling his arm and pumping his fists.
  — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2018
• Pete Townshend is still windmilling on lead guitar, and Roger Daltrey powers through the lead vocals.
  — Mel Shields, sacbee, 8 Aug. 2017
• As the aircraft descends, which can also take around 20 minutes, the electric motor would run in reverse to act as a generator, turned by the windmilling propeller.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• Bryan, playing barefoot, occasionally windmilled his guitar.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• Even with all of that prep, Cain was surprised to see Jirschele windmilling his arms.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 26 Sep. 2017
• So Pollard was at center ice windmilling his arm and pumping his fists.
  — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2018
• Pete Townshend is still windmilling on lead guitar, and Roger Daltrey powers through the lead vocals.
  — Mel Shields, sacbee, 8 Aug. 2017
• As the aircraft descends, which can also take around 20 minutes, the electric motor would run in reverse to act as a generator, turned by the windmilling propeller.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• Bryan, playing barefoot, occasionally windmilled his guitar.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 June 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024