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How to use windy in a sentence

24 example sentences · adjective, noun

Windy means accompanied by wind. Example: “It was a long and windy night.”

Examples of windy by meaning

adjectiveAccompanied by wind.

  • It was a long and windy night.
  • “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, in CNN
  • Humid, windy days with low pressure make pain worse in those with long-term health conditions, according to new research.2019 October 24, Jack Guy, “Humid, windy days worse for pain, says new study”, in CNN

adjectiveUnsheltered and open to the wind.

  • They shagged in a windy bus shelter.

adjectiveEmpty and lacking substance.

  • They made windy promises they would not keep.

adjectiveLong-winded; orally verbose.

  • I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21

adjectiveFlatulent.

  • The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.

adjectiveNervous, frightened.

  • The thing is he’s not windy, he’s a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades.1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin, published 2014, The Regeneration Trilogy, page 848

More sentences with windy

  • A cold May and a windy makes the barn fat and findy.From the entry findy
  • India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.From the entry rhyme
  • On windy spring days, we would fly kites.From the entry kite
  • On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.From the entry wooden
  • Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own.1933 June 12, “Hot Ambassador”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2007. From the entry muggle
  • But the insectothopters were unable to fly in windy conditions.2020, Tessa Miller, Wings & Beaks: Technology Inspried by Animals, page 32. From the entry insectothopter
  • One very windy day, the god Boreas became a citizen of the town of Thurii, the new Sybaris in Magna Graecia.2000, Giulia Sissa with Marcel Detienne, “When the Olympians Donned the Citizen's Costume”, in Janet Lloyd, transl., The Daily Life of the…. From the entry boreas
  • On windy days it danced, demented, waving wild arms, or in the silence of evening drowsed and dreamed, swaying in the blue, the goldeny air.2023, Doug Battersby, Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form, page 148. From the entry goldeny
  • It has a wide variety of affordances including conveying a narrative story, weighing down papers in a windy office, swatting houseflies, etc.2022 May 4, Ryan Whalen, “Defining legal technology and its implications”, in International Journal of Law and Information Technology…. From the entry affordance
  • In its 5 a.m. update, the National Hurricane Center noted that in its initial entry onto land, the storm remains a drenching, windy threat.2012 October 30, John Schwartz, Nina Bernstein, “Sandy Expected to Be Less Powerful, and Less Drenching, as It Moves Inland”, in The New…. From the entry drenching
  • Velsen, a considerable Roman garrison, was not far away; moreover, for centuries the windy IJ formed part of the northern border of the Roman Empire.1999, Geert Mak, translated by Philipp Blom, Amsterdam: A brief life of the city, Vintage, published 2001, page 9. From the entry IJ
  • Two figures crossing the windy park.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 104. From the entry wiener
  • One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!. From the entry tableland
  • They whispered like the windy river-reeds In thoughts that rise far under heights of Heaven — Did they foresing to Heaven of this day ?1912, Isabella Fiske Conant, Gabriel: A Pageant of Vigil. From the entry foresing
  • The windy weather last weekend set a new renewable power record and resulted in some households being paid to charge their electric cars to help balance the grid.2019 December 10, “Stormy weather blows in new wind power record”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media…. From the entry wind farm
  • But the dreams came upon him too: gallopings and shouts through a windy sky, wingbeats, cruel beaks and claws, a feeling of loss unspeakable and unbounded.1973, Poul Anderson, Hrolf Kraki's Saga. From the entry galloping

Meaning of windy

  1. adjective Accompanied by wind.
  2. adjective Unsheltered and open to the wind.
  3. adjective Empty and lacking substance.

Full definition of windy

Questions about windy in a sentence

How do you use windy in a sentence?
Windy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “It was a long and windy night.”
What is a short sentence with windy?
“Two figures crossing the windy park.”
What does windy mean?
Windy means accompanied by wind.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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