How to Use get wind of in a Sentence

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• Pro-trans activists seemingly got wind of the rally and attempted to shout down at those in support of Cunningham.
  — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
• From a chemist’s first search to the perfumer’s modification exploration, there are years and millions of dollars of research before the customer gets wind of anything happening.
  — Arabelle Sicardi, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2026
• Chmerkovskiy quickly took down the offending TikTok, but not before fan screenshots proliferated and Inaba got wind of it.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
• After getting wind of an unusual novel, from 1912, Ignacio tries to find it, while Ena makes the elusive tome the basis of her own docu-fictional novel.
  — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
• In South Los Angeles, a group called Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles got wind of a solid waste incinerator project called LANCER, took on civic and industry forces and strategized and worked and got the city to cancel its plans.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026