How to Use tailwind in a Sentence

tailwind

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  • The big question, of course, is how long the chia tailwind might last.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 20 May 2021
  • The return trip is with a tailwind, and the standard course is around a mile-and-a-half.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Its top speed, if there’s a tailwind, is about 60 miles per hour.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The airport’s windsock, seen in the video, indicates the plane had a tailwind.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Jumping with a slight but cold tailwind, Collier landed just a few feet short of the end of the sand pit.
    — Joe Magill, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
  • That’s been a tailwind of late for its native token, Ether.
    — Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com, 29 July 2022
  • That amounts to a powerful tailwind for the stock market.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Tagovailoa and Hurts aren’t the first quarterbacks to get a huge boost from this type of tailwind.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Her 200 heat was run into a .3 mps headwind while the other two heats had tailwinds.
    — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • Putting those two forces together, the AI tailwind is going to win hands down.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Still, barring any meltdown in the the housing market, there are tailwinds for these stores.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2020
  • But if a headwind gives way to a tailwind, say, or if a cloudy day turns clear and the crystals of the snow shift, then advantages can, too.
    — Howard Fendrich and Pat Graham, chicagotribune.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The jump would have broken Latin Berry's 29-year-old school record if not for a 3.0 meter-per-second tailwind.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 12 May 2018
  • This will give gold a strong tailwind as the oceans of new money continue to grow still further.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Yet the twin tailwinds of Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn will not always be there to help the Tories.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Cross your fingers for a tailwind, or only plan to tow on downhill grades.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Maybe the tailwinds from auto is just so great because of the great transition that that isn't a concern.
    — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • These are among the story lines providing a tailwind to stocks in recent weeks.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 13 July 2022
  • But the stationary bike-maker clearly has its eyes set on the next phase of its growth, once the tailwind of the pandemic fades.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2020
  • One of the best soccer venues in North America provides a brisk tailwind.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
  • The massive tailwind that spawned the real estate price tsunami is over.
    — James Berman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The ever-merry flight attendants wish us good morning, and share the news: thanks to a strong tailwind, the flight is ahead of schedule.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
  • The car’s noisy two-cylinder engine could, with a tailwind, comfortably achieve a top speed of around 60 miles an hour on the open highway.
    — David McAninch, New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • The clutch hits just weren’t there but a few reserves helped spark a rally that sent Alabama to the SEC tournament with a bit of a tailwind.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 11 May 2022
  • For the first time, large-scale regulation has tailwinds.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Sure there’s a lingering Mars-Neptune square, the tailwind of eclipse season and midterm elections.
    — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
  • So stocks won’t get whacked by runaway inflation and will instead catch the tailwind of easy money.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The approach seems unlikely to deliver the same tailwind to economic growth as in the U.S.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
  • In many ways, the tailwinds China enjoyed from global enthusiasm about its rise have become headwinds.
    — Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
  • The higher fees will provide a profit tailwind for Costco, which tries to entice shoppers with low prices on bulk amounts for a relatively narrow assortment of goods.
    — Jaewon Kang and Brendan Case / Bloomberg, TIME, 10 July 2024

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