Cross Wind

The wind blew strongly in my direction, but at a slight cross-wind angle, magnifying the coyote's incessant barking/howling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I thought he was using a cross-wind to come to my grunt call. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These are the same batch of balls as used hitherto but the overhead conditions are different, with the suffocating low cloud of St John's Wood and the humidity of Trent Bridge replaced by a buffeting cross-wind that eventually forced the umpires to call for the heavy lignum vitae bails. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Well, 1¼ if you count the Dash-8s using the cross-wind runway to fly to Seattle every half hour. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Armstrong attacked Contador on a cross-wind stage early on, and then criticised him publicly for not following the team's gameplan in the Pyrenees. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And a cross-wind can blow a fastball off track by about three inches. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Conversely, a wind blowing in from the outfield can be the reason a well hit ball stays in the park, while a cross-wind can be the difference between a fair or foul ball. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We always at the very least use a cross-wind or you see squat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gould's 41-yard field goal into a stiff cross-wind tied the game at 24-24 with 4 minutes 24 seconds left. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This meant riding by myself for 6+ hours, into a head or cross-wind the whole time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cindy, you ever shoot an unopened beer can from 100 yards with a 30-30 with no scope in a cross-wind? ❋ Unknown (2008)

There's a fair amount of wind and the issue they'll be watching today, it's not the clouds, not the rain, although they'll be looking at that, but they'll be focused most on the possibility of too strong a cross-wind, which might make it impossible to land the space shuttle Endeavour on this first landing opportunity. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile describes the Dauphine, which Renault introduced in 1956, as "rather dangerous" and speaks of its "tendency to become airborne in a strong cross-wind." ❋ Unknown (2006)

I'm going to make paper rockets out of all these damning comments, and fly them against a strong cross-wind. ❋ Chirayu (2004)

As we calculate it, the only thing hindering man from achieving its age old quest for the power of flight is ... a talking parrot-head handle umbrella and a wicked cross-wind. ❋ Amishboy (2003)

You can still control a plane without a vertical stabilizer - because that part only helps to keep the plane pointing toward a cross-wind, even without use of the rudder. ❋ Whyjakeisodd (2001)