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Recent Examples of windbreak
For livestock, this would include potable water, sanitary living conditions and access to a windbreak such as a building or tree line.
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Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
The cemetery was divided in two by a windbreak of giant elms.
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Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
The shelter provided by walls, fencing, and other trees and shrubs serves as a windbreak and keeps new plantings more protected.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Nov. 2025
Mario elbowed me into a small windbreak.
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Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
20 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for windbreak
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
The cemetery was divided in two by a windbreak of giant elms.
—
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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
Mario elbowed me into a small windbreak.
—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
20 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for windbreak
Recent Examples of Synonyms for windbreak
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In one-, two-, and three-bedroom models, the lean-to or gable-roofed residences feature Cor-ten steel and aluminum façades surrounding a mass timber structure that, visible in the open-plan interior, also serves as an aesthetic feature.
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Black California lives on freeway exits and underpasses, in tents and lean-tos.
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The optical illusion reminded early settlers of the blockades of wooden stakes, or palisades, built around forts to ward off threats.
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Today, visitors can walk inside the palisade walls, watch a film in the King’s Storehouse, hear cannon and musket firings, and explore barracks, houses, a church and other structures that interpret a year‑round community of roughly 200–300 people and a much larger seasonal population.
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The Polar Aurora outdoor shed is 12 feet long and 10 feet wide with double doors on the long side, plus a window to let light in.
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Important Papers And Documents Your best bet is to invest in a filing system indoors, not inside the shed.
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The studio setting opened up sonic possibilities unavailable inside a fort.
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The plan also urges African countries to preserve former slave forts and castles as memorial sites.
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Alexander the Great conquered it in 332 BCE after building a causeway to what had been considered an impregnable island fortress.
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Some, like France's Maginot Line, became border fortresses stretching for miles, while German coastal defenses sat on the cliffs of Normandy, requiring the Allies to take out with sea bombardments and direct infantry assaults.
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As a result, Democrats make inroads even on longtime local Republican strongholds.
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Morales has been entrenched in his coca-growing stronghold in the Chapare region since 2024 and has refused to appear before the courts.
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The plan also urges African countries to preserve former slave forts and castles as memorial sites.
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Nolan and the cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, wielding heavy IMAX cameras, shot their picture across the Mediterranean and beyond, in caves, castles, beaches, black-sand wastes, and open water.
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Crews are wanting to learn more about the earthen fortification, known as the redoubt, which is essentially a dirt fort colonial soldiers built by hand overnight before fighting began.
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Contrast that with Europe, ostensibly a redoubt of strong climate policy.
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“Windbreak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windbreak. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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