How to Use vane in a Sentence

vane

noun

• These vanes form gaps between the metal plates that vent heat.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
• Hardly a vane left in this county.
  — Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
• 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
• The angle-of-attack sensors look like wind vanes, whereas the pitot tubes look like, well, tubes.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Apr. 2019
• The hair removal vanes prevented tangling around the brushroll.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Instead, the two agencies said, all evidence points to a bird strike on the sensor vane.
  — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Another, equipped with a wind vane, transfers the motion of breezes to the room below.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
• But there was no such button to simulate an angle of attack vane going wrong.
  — Author: Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2019
• Soft-fabric sheers, with translucent facings and rotatable vanes, screen the space from the street.
  — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• 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
• Most of the heat that's produced by braking is dissipated through the rotor vanes.
  — Jay Leno, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2012
• At the Bali airport, a vane, known as an angle of attack sensor, was replaced.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2019
• When moving on water, users can control over much of the vanes are deployed, depending on the depth of the water.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• The parts were seals on compressor stator vanes that help direct airflow inside the engine.
  — Mary Schlangenstein, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• As a hydrofoil, the vehicle features blades, or vanes, that elevate the body of the boat for a smoother ride.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• Many of the arguments about whether this creature could fly have centered on something called vane asymmetry.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
• This eliminates the need for guide vanes between the high- and low-pressure stages, and results in a more compact structure.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
• For decades, this state was a reliable wind vane of American politics.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• The Dolphins’ front office had a weather-vane philosophy the past decade.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
• 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 replacement vane put onto this airplane in Bali was older than the airplane itself.
  — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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 counter-rotating rotors remove the need for a tail rotor, while adjustable tail vanes provide smooth yaw control by catching the airflow.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
• The turbo uses variable vane technology to let the engine make peak torque at 1,750 rpm.
  — Karl Brauer, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• But those vanes generated drag within the exhaust stream and reduced effective thrust by about 10 percent.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2021
• When driving on land, Tice said the hydrofoil's vanes, or blades, retract into the vehicle so they can't be damaged by road objects like rocks.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• The designs were inspired by the golden grasshopper vane atop the Royal Exchange in London.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• The problem involves a defective cap on the rotating vane in the mechanical vacuum pump.
  — Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 22 Nov. 2021