How to Use prevailing wind in a Sentence
prevailing wind
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This coastal storm is called a nor’easter due to the prevailing wind direction from the northeast ahead of its center.
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Dakin Andone,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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This coastal storm is called a nor’easter due to the prevailing wind direction from the northeast ahead of its center.
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Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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Of the four, the most familiar, the prevailing wind of Mesopotamia, still blows today from the northwest.
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Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
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Our backs were toward the southwest, the direction of the prevailing wind, when disaster struck.
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Jim Hoagland,
Outdoor Life,
30 Apr. 2026
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The prevailing wind blew the flames toward two neighboring houses of the same architectural style.
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Kris Habermehl,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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The ridges all lean the same way, slanting and curving in from the lower left of the frame, which ESA noted reflects the direction of the prevailing wind in this region.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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The smoke, primarily from out-of-control fires in Manitoba, has become a seasonal intruder, carried by prevailing wind patterns.
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Hannah Parry
amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Aug. 2025
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In Wyoming, the Dollar Lake wildfire north-northwest of Pinedale will continue to push smoke into the Upper Green River Basin given the prevailing wind direction.
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Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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Kauffman Stadium is notoriously unfriendly to home run hitters—a product of its cavernous outfield and prevailing wind patterns—and the team recently deputized assistant GM Daniel Mack to study what an adjustment might look like.
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Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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