How to Use wind tunnel in a Sentence

wind tunnel

noun
  • The world’s largest wind tunnel.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The wind tunnel that ensued ripped open the kitchen and front door.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The goal isn’t a wind tunnel, but a gentle sense of active air.
    — Craig Mod, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • His mouth is a wind tunnel and his thoughts are like dollars floating in it.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 18 May 2026
  • Our work begins by putting balls in wind tunnels to measure drag, side and lift forces.
    — John Eric Goff, The Conversation, 13 May 2026
  • Is there some other way, in an analog of a wind tunnel or something?
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2025
  • The wind tunnel effect refers to how skyscrapers can change wind speeds and patterns on their own.
    — Virginia Langmaid and Judson Jones, CNN, 4 Aug. 2020
  • This year, each of those wind tunnel tests mattered more than ever, Cadieux says.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The wind tunnel and the freefalls didn’t alter their performance.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Next year’s car has been in the wind tunnel since January 2.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2025
  • But what works in the wind tunnel or digital world may not always work in the real world.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2022
  • Pagani says the shape is the result of thousands of hours of wind tunnel testing.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The tubing was a bit like hurtling through a supersonic wind tunnel, but fun all the same.
    — Maya Silver, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The team then stuffed two real northern gannet wings with cotton and propped them up in a wind tunnel.
    — Mennatalla Ibrahim, Science | AAAS, 7 July 2021
  • Chrysler constructed a wind tunnel, one of the first in the industry, to test its shape.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Kids love the dark, winding tunnels within as well as the massive historic canons.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 5 Jan. 2020
  • To date, the contractor has tested scale models in a wind tunnel.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Next, the team placed real springtails, both living and dead, in a wind tunnel, and dropped them in a free-fall.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • And the car's shape is the product of many hours of CFD and wind tunnel time.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Cox also said the building created a kind of wind tunnel that caused part of the tree to dry out and turn brown.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Just imagine three years in the emotional wind tunnel that is a 15-year-old girl.
    — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • This time, the engineers are working with full-size sections of the bridge railing in a wind tunnel.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2021
  • Its first full-size wind tunnel opened in 1943 and is still used for airflow and wiper testing.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Whitcomb tested the idea in a wind tunnel and found that winglets could achieve a reduction of drag of about 5%.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Some observers have compared portions of the downhill course named the Rock to a wind tunnel.
    — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • What the team saw on track and in the wind tunnel didn’t correlate, and the team began falling behind again.
    — Madeline Coleman, The Athletic, 11 July 2024
  • In order to refine the bodywork even more, Renault plans to test it in wind tunnels this spring.
    — New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Their fashion, politics, music, movies and mores would blow away the old like cobwebs in a wind tunnel.
    — Leonard Pitts Jr - Miami Herald, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The Polestar 3's bodywork has been optimized in the wind tunnel.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Porter Ranch sits in a wind tunnel that during hot Santa Ana events erupt in flames.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2019

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