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Recent Examples of windbreak
Provide a windbreak for the birds near the birdbath.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
The shelter provided by walls, fencing, and other trees and shrubs serves as a windbreak and keeps new plantings more protected.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2025
Fruit trees are beautiful landscape additions, improve air quality, may add to your property’s value, and can serve as windbreaks.
—Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Mario elbowed me into a small windbreak.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2025
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
The shelter provided by walls, fencing, and other trees and shrubs serves as a windbreak and keeps new plantings more protected.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2025
Fruit trees are beautiful landscape additions, improve air quality, may add to your property’s value, and can serve as windbreaks.
—Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Mario elbowed me into a small windbreak.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for windbreak
Noun
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Before the lean-to was finished, Tom crawled into it and wrapped the deerskin around his feet without taking his boots off.—
Elwyn "Bud" Myers,
Outdoor Life,
11 Mar. 2026
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Never has a restaurant’s name been so fitting as The Stand – a literal, wooden lean-to on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, complete with handwritten menu signs and a ceiling made of tarps.—
USA TODAY NETWORK,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In an ideal world the palisades would have their own mayor and police department.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Feb. 2026
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Controlling passage through the palisade were twenty-one ornate gates, spaced approximately fifty kilometers apart, meant not only to curb immigration of Han Chinese and Koreans into Qing lands but also to limit movement of any natural resources out.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Stephen Graham is going to need a second shed in his back garden for all his awards.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Health inspectors also observed one dead roach in a dry storage shed, an accumulation of dead roaches and a live roach underneath the sushi bar.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Mar. 2026
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Despite those staggering volumes, Ukraine holds the fort.—
Mikhail Alexseev,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2026
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Our boys were no longer little travelers content to trail along behind us through forts and museums.—
Christine Chitnis,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 Mar. 2026
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When a crew member is found dead and another goes missing, military investigators board the floating fortress, with its 2,000-strong crew and nuclear payload, to hunt for the truth before the murder becomes a global security crisis.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Mar. 2026
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One focus of Russian attacks has been the town of Lyman in Donetsk, at the edge of what’s known as Ukraine’s fortress belt in the region, and a key strongpoint guarding the larger city of Sloviansk.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
22 Mar. 2026
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He was killed in southern Lebanon, a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah, as Israel expands an invasion there.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Journalists heard several explosions from the direction of the Hezbollah stronghold, which Israel has repeatedly struck since war began.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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And the staff are available up to nine hours a day to lead on-property animal rescue adventures and oversee sand-castle building on the two private beaches.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Mar. 2026
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Two dozen disciples who have gathered in this large white space within a 19th-century Scottish castle ruminate with total concentration.—
Séamas O'Reilly,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Being the Mellons’ New York City redoubt, their home at 125 East 70th Street was arguably more opulent than the couple’s other residences.—
Vanity Fair,
Vanity Fair,
17 Feb. 2026
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One by one, Robbins and his team peeled away from their redoubt behind the Interceptor and cleared the pickups and the Wagoneers.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Windbreak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windbreak. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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