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32 examples of Windmill in a sentence

So this shows ... (Laughter) (Applause) When the wind is blowing, any excess energy coming from the windmill is diverted into the battery.
You end up like some kind of rabid windmill.
(Audience: T, E, D.) There I am like a bloody windmill again, you see.
Here's a photograph of a consultation exercise in full swing in the little town of Penicuik just outside Edinburgh, and you can see the children of Penicuik celebrating the burning of the effigy of the windmill.
WK: I wanted to make a windmill.
CA: A windmill?
CA: And what did you make the windmill out of?
The windmill.
We'll just make it out of old bicycle parts using a windmill, as William Kamkwamba did.
When I met him next, he was going to put a windmill at the local school.
Imagine a windmill that produced the breeze it needed to keep rotating.
And you didn't know about the windmill, you know?
It said a windmill could pump water and generate electricity.
So I decided I would build one windmill for myself.
In principle, there are several ways to get renewable electricity, but how many buildings do you know which have a windmill on the roof or a water power plant in the garden?
A fine ironic visual gag takes place in front of the spectacular backdrop of a twirling windmill.
A miller, dressed in white, makes his way towards us from a windmill in a desolate landscape.
Yet I remember it pretty well, with a nice twist or two, and an interesting ambiance on a windmill farm.
If you want to spend 90 minutes to see a few moments of punch-pulled action atop a windmill, go ahead and take a chance on this cheap flick.
Legend is about a middle-class family of city dwellers that have just moved to a New England country-side home in support of a windmill project being constructed by husband and father, Guy Cooley (Justin Theroux).
Build a farmhouse out of a heap of timber, use the leftovers to glue a tower together with a propeller on it so that it vaguely resembles a windmill and... presto, we are in Holland!
During the ill-fated Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, Denmark’s capital city was plastered with slick ads urging the delegates to make a strong deal –paid for by Vestas, the world’s largest windmill producer.
It should be obvious that the $1 billion windmill doesn’t negate the trillions of dollars of damage from climate change that we still have to pay by the end of the century.
He spent all the evening working, and dreaming how a windmill could be made on which one could ride, either by seizing one of the sails or by tying oneself to it and spinning round.
But she returned, and the servant brought Berthe, who was swinging a windmill roof downwards at the end of a string.
On either side, the banks of the Medway, covered with cornfields and pastures, with here and there a windmill, or a distant church, stretched away as far as the eye could see, presenting a rich and varied landscape, rendered more beautiful by the changing shadows which passed swiftly across it as the thin and half-formed clouds skimmed away in the light of the morning sun.
Then, when our leisure hours came, we used to go out together and turn into the shady avenues by the Alster, and went happily side by side up to the old windmill, which forms such an improvement to the landscape at the head of the lake.
Then I took a childish pleasure in exploring the city; my uncle let me take him with me, but he took notice of nothing, neither the insignificant king's palace, nor the pretty seventeenth century bridge, which spans the canal before the museum, nor that immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen's, adorned with horrible mural painting, and containing within it a collection of the sculptor's works, nor in a fine park the toylike chateau of Rosenberg, nor the beautiful renaissance edifice of the Exchange, nor its spire composed of the twisted tails of four bronze dragons, nor the great windmill on the ramparts, whose huge arms dilated in the sea breeze like the sails of a ship.
Cyrus Harding could have utilized the second fall which flowed into the Mercy to establish his motive power, the first being already occupied with moving the felting mill, but, after some consultation, it was decided that a simple windmill should be built on Prospect Heights.
"Not to mention," said Pencroft, "that the windmill will be more lively and will have a good effect in the landscape!"