How to Use trade wind in a Sentence

trade wind

noun
  • There are new fears that shifting trade winds will send vog plumes toward the rest of the state.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • But lately, trade winds have been blowing most of the vog offshore.
    — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2018
  • So far, trade winds have been mostly blowing the gray haze offshore.
    — NBC News, 29 May 2018
  • The trade winds swirling around LaMarcus Aldridge went nowhere.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • In all the oceans, this low pressure draws in steady winds from the south-east known as the southern trade winds.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • Memphis is a sudden fixation as trade winds swirl south.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The economic sectors that are hurting are those most exposed to the trade winds.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Surely there are scores of places with white sand, celadon seas, and soothing trade winds that are easier to get to?
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
  • The main house and four bungalows fronted an empty beach that faced east, straight into the trade winds.
    — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
  • La Niña events are when stronger-than-usual trade winds push warm water toward Asia.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • This sinking motion diverges at the ocean surface and helps enhance the trade winds which blow from east to west.
    — Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Promises of local jobs and economic gains are forgotten, blown away with the trade winds.
    — Will McGough, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Along with the sails, shipping routes will also need altered to follow and better harness trade winds.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Check out our summer sales and swap those backyard barbecues and buggy city nights for beach bargains and breezy trade winds.
    — Melanie Reffes, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
  • Van Tilburg says the trade winds in the area pushed vessels onto the Lāna`I shore and kept them in place.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2024
  • Over the ocean, these winds are known as the trade winds, which sailors have long relied on for transatlantic navigation from east to west.
    — Christophe Lavaysse, JSTOR Daily, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Reliable trade winds dimple the desert-meets-ocean landscape with vast tidepools and low-tide lagoons.
    — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Over the centuries, the trade winds carried merchants and pirates who brought with them spices, fruits and vegetables.
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Only six players broke 70 in the opening round, a product of trade winds strong enough to cause players to back off putts.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Draping from doorways, light linens billow in the trade winds, and colobus monkeys scamper in treetops overhead.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
  • On weekends the bright red urban farmhouse opens its on-site restaurant, a small, open-air cafe with picnic benches that catch the trade winds.
    — Shannon Sims, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Low pressure over Tahiti and high pressure over Darwin disrupts the trade winds.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • Visibility is good, since this part of the island is protected from the trade winds and very few rivers end their course in the sea here.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • El Niño brings the opposite setup, with weaker or reversed trade winds and warmer ocean waters.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The trade winds that typically blow from east to west near the equator can slacken and then reverse direction as well.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Most were kitesurfers chasing the trade winds that sweep west along the coast — the same natural forces that have shaped the Lençóis for millennia.
    — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2025
  • But every few years, the trade winds that blow from east to west weaken, allowing that warm water to slosh eastward and pile up along the equator.
    — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • These trade winds weaken and cause warm water to pile up and migrate towards South America.
    — Megan Barber, Curbed, 19 Sep. 2018
  • With the exception of some breezier trade winds, no major impacts to Hawaii were expected.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Those regions can send matts of sargassum toward Florida on trade winds and ocean currents.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025

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