upwind

How to use upwind in a sentence

• At one point, the owner of a neighboring farm spread manure on the field upwind, suffusing the area with its stench for days.

  How Scotland forged a rare alliance between amateur treasure hunters and archaeologists | Corinne Iozzio | August 24, 2021 | Popular-Science

• “When we’re done, it will be like this well was never here,” Shuck said, standing upwind as cement was pumped hundreds of feet down, through a series of pipes stuck in the 7½-inch-wide hole like a straw in a juice box.

  Capping methane-spewing oil wells, one hole at a time | Nick Ehli | July 1, 2021 | Washington Post

• The whalers’ observations from the time suggest that they may have also been escaping upwind or attacking the whaling boats.

  Sperm whales have a surprisingly deep—and useful—culture | Ellie Shechet | March 19, 2021 | Popular-Science

• Blocks of snow were cut and arranged in a semicircle, within which the tent was laid with its peak upwind.

  The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson

• I was the upwind wheeler and had to hitch on to the side of the sledge to reduce the leeway as much as possible.

  The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson