How to Use windmill in a Sentence
windmill
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My goal is to not let any windmill be built.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2026
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My goal is to not let any windmill be built.
—Tamara Keith, NPR, 24 Mar. 2026
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There would be windmills all over the place.
—Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
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And look, look out there—there's no windmills.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
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And look, look out there — there's no windmills.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
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At the back of the house, in open fields, were three large windmills.
—Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
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Ask for a room facing the windmill.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 25 Feb. 2026
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But he isn’t done tilting at windmills.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
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Just the kind of tilting at windmills that drove Marge up the wall.
—Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
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The next time down the floor, Budinger had a monster windmill dunk.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
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There are windmills to slay, crises to fabricate, rings to kiss.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
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Down the block, a working windmill towers over the prairie.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 22 Jan. 2026
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Holland, mm-hmm, tulips, windmills.
—Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
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Childhood dreams of living in a windmill?
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 10 Apr. 2026
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On one side of the stage is a windmill; on the other is a giant elephant.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
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And how many birds are killed every year by flying into windmills?
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
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Shunt windmills and solar panels all over the country to catch them?
—Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 21 June 2023
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Don Quixote, tilting at windmills.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
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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
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This list wouldn’t be complete without at least one Dutch windmill.
—Sara Lieberman, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2022
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There's also an ancient windmill on-site that the team plans to restore and put to use.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
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Downtown, a park with a Dutch windmill and tulips attracts tourists each spring.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
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Along with windmills, Ærø has one of the world’s largest solar power plants.
—Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2023
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Originally, the shaft was used to mill grain, thus a windmill.
—WSJ, 11 June 2021
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Its iconic windmill first lit up in 1889.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
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But maybe, just maybe, there’s some value in tilting at your own quixotic windmill.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
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Be sure to watch for giant windmills dotting the landscape.
—Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2026
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Not from windmills or solar panels.
—Peter Murphy, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
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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
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Visitors can still see the remains of salt ponds and windmills today.
—Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2023
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