windmill in English

noun
1
a building with sails or vanes that turn in the wind and generate power to grind grain into flour.
In the past windmills were used to grind corn into flour.
verb
1
(with reference to a person's arms) move or be moved around in a circle in a manner suggestive of the rotating sails or vanes of a windmill.
An avant-garde version of Ashlee Simpson, Thomas alternated between banshee wails and guttural growls to pre-recorded noise, while windmilling her arm to sometimes strike the strings of her guitar.

Use "windmill" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "windmill" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "windmill", or refer to the context using the word "windmill" in the English Dictionary.

1. Windmill.

2. A windmill.

3. A windmill?

4. CA: A windmill?

5. It's a windmill.

6. The broken windmill is creaking.

7. Have you seen their windmill?

8. Vertical shaft type darius windmill

9. The Archimedes Re-inventing the Windmill

10. I wanted to make a windmill.

11. The stone tower of an 18th-century windmill.

12. A windmill Anemometer is another type.

13. WK: I wanted to make a windmill.

14. During the Industrial Revolution, Batavia became known as ‘The Windmill City’ for being the largest windmill producer of the time.

15. You end up like some kind of rabid windmill.

16. In fact, the windmill provided too much power.

17. Later, the party visited a restored windmill at Bursledon.

18. 21 A windmill is used to crush grain into.

19. And you didn't know about the windmill, you know?

20. Gloriously but illogically they rode off to tilt at another windmill.

21. 4 A windmill is used to crush grain into.

22. CA: And so, and that windmill, what -- it worked?

23. There was a picture of a windmill on the bedroom wall.

24. 8 A windmill is used to crush grain into flour.

25. We're gonna get a little place of land and rabbits and windmill.

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27. The completed windmill stood as a monument to its builders'fate and sacrifice.

28. However, Cauldron Barn Farm, inland on a ridge by the former windmill, survives.

29. I cross the wooden bridge to the windmill, the planks yielding under my feet.

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31. When I met him next, he was going to put a windmill at the local school.

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33. As winter sets in, Snowball announces his idea for a windmill, while Napoleon opposes it.

34. If waterwheels were replaced by the sails of a windmill, the same objective could be achieved.

35. A windmill rotor with adjustable-pitch blades, as well as windmills with such a rotor

36. It is known for its 1801 windmill (Heimolen) as well as the cycling race called Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen.

37. We'll just make it out of old bicycle parts using a windmill, as William Kamkwamba did.

38. Ridgery Butts was a slovenly, poor village, clay and thatch hovels clustered about its church and windmill.

39. There was only one low hill in sight, and this had an old, disused windmill on it.

40. Continue through Headington shopping precinct until reaching Windmill Road traffic lights, turn right and continue until the roundabout.

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42. 21 There was only one low hill in sight, and this had an old, disused windmill on it.

43. The Cartwheel effect is a term that describes the rotating, windmill-like effect of light that mint state coins exhibit

44. Each turbine can produce 0.3 megawatt of electricity, compared to 1-5 megawatt generated by a normal vertical turbine (windmill).

45. As Robert watched, Aziz raised his mop and started a kind of semaphore in the direction of the Windmill.

46. Brisbane is a very leafy city and one of its parks, Wickham Park, contains the Old Windmill, Brisbane’s oldest building

47. Another listed building is the fine windmill which stands on the hill above the village and makes an outstanding local landmark.

48. The first power generating windmill farm in Southeast Asia, commonly known as Bangui Wind Farm, is found in the municipality of Bangui.

49. The windmill assembly is a low drag, streamlined body of revolution that captures the kinetic energy content of the accelerated laminar air surrounding the body.

50. Instead of lightbulbs, there are oil lamps; instead of cars, horse and buggy; instead of running water, a well and windmill; instead of radios, singing.