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  • noun Plural form of windsock.

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Examples

  • When she has a batch she doesn't like, she tears it up for scrap and makes it into windsocks or just lets Kaylin play with it.

    Odin's Day ellyssian 2009

  • Officials were unable to explain what the vehicles were doing on a nature reserve, or why there were windsocks nearby, which appeared to suggest the presence of an airfield.

    Gaddafi faces new ICC charges for using rape as weapon in conflict 2011

  • Officials were unable to explain what the vehicles were doing on a nature reserve, or why there were windsocks nearby, which appeared to suggest the presence of an airfield.

    Gaddafi faces new ICC charges for using rape as weapon in conflict 2011

  • The windsocks on the goalposts are floating on the morning breeze.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • The windsocks on the goalposts are floating on the morning breeze.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • Cimicifuga racemosa, windsocks riding air after roses are ash, your name a rainbow of vowels that sing of light, glimmer in bone-dry woods, blaze in our winter night, deliver us.

    Cimicifuga 2007

  • We swung on the railings like windsocks and often fell, skinning our elbows on the cement landing.

    Two Peas 2009

  • Cimicifuga racemosa, windsocks riding air after roses are ash, your name a rainbow of vowels that sing of light, glimmer in bone-dry woods, blaze in our winter night, deliver us.

    Cimicifuga 2007

  • "He consults polls as if they were giant windsocks that tell him which way the wind is blowing," Morris writes.

    See Dick Run The Country 2008

  • Where were those commemorative Buzz Aldrin windsocks?

    Outer Space Edition 2008

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