windbreak - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • provide: The fence provided support for the Griselinia hedge, which is now established enough to provide a mini windbreak to both gardens.
  • make: A line of trees can make a useful windbreak.
  • create: Carmarthen bay is less than two miles away behind the windbreak created by Pembrey forest.
  • have: I have a nice windbreak to protect me from the hot air.
  • erect: They erect windbreaks from whatever they have brought with them or whatever they can find.
  • plant: Through a gate by a line of windbreak planted trees and you come to a derelict farmhouse and some cattle sheds.

Preposition: for

  • crop: Trees also hold agricultural terraces in place on steep slopes, provide windbreaks for crops and maintain sand dunes.

Adjective modifier

  • natural: Make use of any natural windbreaks, hedges, walls or boulders and where possible face the tent away from a prevailing wind.
  • excellent: It will make a lovely formal hedge that also acts as an excellent windbreak.
  • good: A good windbreak greatly enhances the variety of plants that can be grown in the garden.
  • temporary: The installation of temporary windbreak netting is necessary to get the plantings off to a good start.
  • efficient: The top folds back to reveal the burners; two wings unfold from either side of the top to complete an efficient windbreak.

Modifies a noun

  • material: Some planting was enclosed in stockades of windbreak material but the posts would work loose in the saturated winter ground.
  • screen: Tender plants will benefit from a windbreak screen which you could make out of stout polythene.
  • hedge: Hardy, wind resistant, tolerant of poor, dry sites, and thus useful in windbreak hedges.

Noun used with modifier

  • glass: Customer Feedback - Toughened Glass Windbreak Screen " I recently purchased a toughened glass windbreak screen for my 1997 MGF here in New Zealand.

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