How to Use downwind in a Sentence

downwind

adverb or adjective

• Trails downwind from the eruption have been closed for years.
  — Caleb Jones, ajc, 30 Sep. 2021
• Imagine there is a half-dome directly downwind in front of and above you.
  — Cameron Johnson, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2016
• Howard Terminal is less than two miles downwind from where the coal would end up.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 27 May 2020
• So think about how ducks might circle downwind in order to approach your decoy spread.
  — Joe Arterburn, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
• Now that house is starting to produce embers for the next building downwind.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
• Any time there was a breeze, my dirt-hole was downwind from his human Marlboro chimney.
  — Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Set decoys in a teardrop shape with the point aimed downwind and a landing hole where the tear begins to narrow.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, on the cold side of the storm, lake effect snow with gusty winds will continue downwind of the lakes.
  — NBC News, 19 Nov. 2021
• That choppy air would reduce the performance of any turbine that was downwind of the first one.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2023
• So the areas downwind from East Palastine may be a cause for concern.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• Finally, with light fading, the pig circles downwind and gives me a clear view of its shoulder.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 2 Mar. 2021
• One of the concerns is long-range spotting — when embers are carried far downwind starting new spot fires.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 9 July 2022
• Winds may carry volcanic gas and possibly fine ash and Pele’s hair downwind.
  — oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2022
• There will also be widespread areas of smoke from the fires, which will make for very poor air quality downwind of the blazes.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
• Think about all those peach pies, key lime pies and pecan pies that point to locales downwind from the Mason-Dixon line.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 12 July 2018
• For success, head downwind of a switchgrass field, CRP field, conifers, or a ridge.
  — Outdoor Life, 20 Oct. 2020
• The team visually spotted flares in the three regions, then flew downwind into the exhaust plumes of the flares.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• People outside the half-mile radius who live downwind of the fire were advised to keep windows closed and pets inside.
  — Arleigh Rodgers and Rick Callahan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
• Lake-effect snow continues downwind of the Great Lakes.
  — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
• Figure out where the feeding and the swinging trails cross, and hang your stand downwind of that intersection.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 11 Sep. 2020
• Three families at tables seated downwind from the vent got sick, while those seated outside of the stream of air didn’t.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 22 June 2020
• The air flow downwind of a turbine may feel to them like the currents on the sheltered sides of cliffs or trees—places where bats gather in nature.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2014
• Lake effect snow will also impact areas downwind of the Great Lakes.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• Radar detected the smoke plume from the blazes over 100 miles downwind well to the east of Denver.
  — Jason Samenow, Jacob Feuerstein, Becky Bolinger, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022
• During an eruption, Pele hair – thin strands of volcanic glass – along with volcanic ash, can be brought downwind by strong winds.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
• Made less dense, the air then rises, cools and condenses into clouds, which produce heavy snow in narrow bands downwind.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2026
• Also through Wednesday, lake-effect snow will take hold downwind of the Great Lakes.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
• Areas downwind of the Great Lakes had some of the greatest snowfall deficits due to a lack of lake-effect snow.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• The lake-effect snow will continue for areas downwind of the lakes into Sunday.
  — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2022
• Some of the highest temperatures in the Bay Area are forecast to be downwind of these warm, dry breezes.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023