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Recent Examples of windbreak
For livestock, this would include potable water, sanitary living conditions and access to a windbreak such as a building or tree line.
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Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
The cemetery was divided in two by a windbreak of giant elms.
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Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
The shelter provided by walls, fencing, and other trees and shrubs serves as a windbreak and keeps new plantings more protected.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Nov. 2025
Mario elbowed me into a small windbreak.
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Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
20 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for windbreak
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
The cemetery was divided in two by a windbreak of giant elms.
—
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
The shelter provided by walls, fencing, and other trees and shrubs serves as a windbreak and keeps new plantings more protected.
—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Nov. 2025
Mario elbowed me into a small windbreak.
—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
20 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for windbreak
Recent Examples of Synonyms for windbreak
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The old fence was in bad shape, too, being held up on one side by a lean-to.
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Black California lives on freeway exits and underpasses, in tents and lean-tos.
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The optical illusion reminded early settlers of the blockades of wooden stakes, or palisades, built around forts to ward off threats.
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Today, visitors can walk inside the palisade walls, watch a film in the King’s Storehouse, hear cannon and musket firings, and explore barracks, houses, a church and other structures that interpret a year‑round community of roughly 200–300 people and a much larger seasonal population.
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This rustic teak love seat can work in lots of spaces, like on the perimeter of your garden or outside your shed, while the modern Brighton rug is perfect for streamlining an outdoor conversation set.
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Because your backyard shed will likely be home to mowers, clippers, lumber, and other large items, the fact that the doors open wide makes moving stuff in and out of the space much easier.
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Washington and his men had left the fort heading west toward the sounds of gunfire.
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Background and conception Roughs Tower, or HM Fort Roughs, was originally built in 1942, one in a series of large sea forts built in the North Sea by Great Britain during World War II.
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Was a wedding at that hulking fortress in Midtown Manhattan gauche?
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The footage opens with fortress-like coastal imagery before moving into large-scale period sets, suggesting the film will have the epic scope of Hugo’s story while grounding it in a raw visual language.
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History fans should look out for the climb up to the Château de Montségur, once a stronghold of the Cathar religious rebels, and scene of a bloody siege in 1244.
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According to the indictment made public this week, the Hoovers had strongholds over specific hotels and motels in their territory, including the Stadium Inn & Spas.
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Earlier this week, Daniel Bishop, Jim Bishop's son and the caretaker of Bishop Castle, was seriously injured while working on a structure next to the castle.
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Two years ago, the Man City phenom appeared in a 90-second spot for the game that saw him get recruited to storm a castle teeming with goblins, dragons and impish skeletons.
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Crews are wanting to learn more about the earthen fortification, known as the redoubt, which is essentially a dirt fort colonial soldiers built by hand overnight before fighting began.
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Contrast that with Europe, ostensibly a redoubt of strong climate policy.
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“Windbreak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windbreak. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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