How to Use trade wind in a Sentence
trade wind
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The high pressure controls the strength of the trade winds.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
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The trade winds swirling around LaMarcus Aldridge went nowhere.
—Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2017
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In all the oceans, this low pressure draws in steady winds from the south-east known as the southern trade winds.
—The Economist, 27 June 2019
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There are new fears that shifting trade winds will send vog plumes toward the rest of the state.
—Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 7 June 2018
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But lately, trade winds have been blowing most of the vog offshore.
—Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2018
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So far, trade winds have been mostly blowing the gray haze offshore.
—NBC News, 29 May 2018
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Vintage buildings are worn smooth by salty trade winds.
—Allen Pierleoni, The Mercury News, 16 June 2019
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By early December, trade winds might chill the mood again.
—Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
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The surface can stay warm for a while, but once the heat from the subsurface is gone and the trade winds return, the El Niño event collapses.
—CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
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The economic sectors that are hurting are those most exposed to the trade winds.
—Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2019
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Surely there are scores of places with white sand, celadon seas, and soothing trade winds that are easier to get to?
—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
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Only six players broke 70 in the opening round, a product of trade winds strong enough to cause players to back off putts.
—USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2018
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Jamaica in June is sweltering, with only the northeast trade winds and the waters of the Caribbean to take the edge off.
—Dan Rys, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2019
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Over the centuries, the trade winds carried merchants and pirates who brought with them spices, fruits and vegetables.
—Mary Winston Nicklin, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
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To his left are floor-to-ceiling windows, dappled with the shadows of palm trees that sway in the trade winds that carry over South Beach and Biscayne Bay.
—Tom Verducci, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
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Visibility is good, since this part of the island is protected from the trade winds and very few rivers end their course in the sea here.
—Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
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The gas clouds initially appear on the shoreline, but trade winds on Sunday carried plumes about 15 miles to the southwest.
—NBC News, 22 May 2018
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The circulation is completed by the trade winds, which typically blow from the east to the west near the surface.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
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On weekends the bright red urban farmhouse opens its on-site restaurant, a small, open-air cafe with picnic benches that catch the trade winds.
—Shannon Sims, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
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The opposite phase, known as La Niña, sees strong trade winds blow that warm water back to the west, pulling up cold water from the deeps along South America.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2019
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Low pressure over Tahiti and high pressure over Darwin disrupts the trade winds.
—The Economist, 27 June 2019
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Along with the sails, shipping routes will also need altered to follow and better harness trade winds.
—Devika Rao, The Week, 24 Aug. 2023
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But every few years, the trade winds that blow from east to west weaken, allowing that warm water to slosh eastward and pile up along the equator.
—CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
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The water in the region is predicted to warm faster than elsewhere around the globe because of a weakening of trade winds, Vecchi said.
—Seth Borenstein, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
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That's because from January to April trade winds from the north blow most of the warm surface water out to sea, and colder water wells up from the depths to replace it.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2018
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Check out our summer sales and swap those backyard barbecues and buggy city nights for beach bargains and breezy trade winds.
—Melanie Reffes, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
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Reliable trade winds dimple the desert-meets-ocean landscape with vast tidepools and low-tide lagoons.
—Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
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These trade winds weaken and cause warm water to pile up and migrate towards South America.
—Megan Barber, Curbed, 19 Sep. 2018
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Klotzbach said a high pressure system that normally sets up cooling trade winds collapsed then and hasn’t returned.
—Seth Borenstein, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2024
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Finally, light trade winds allow hurricanes to grow in strength without the disruption of strong wind shear and minimize ocean cooling.
—Hunter Geisel, CBS News, 23 May 2024
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