shift of wind
winds shift

With the sudden shift of wind, the storm had become more unpredictable.

Jan winced as a shift of wind sent a fine spray over them.

The wizard-prince lifted head, wary as an old wolf at a shift of wind.

The main shift of wind took place just as the upper surface of the first stratum was reached.

A sudden shift of wind threw shatters of rain against the windows.

It was covered over by cardboard, but now a shift of wind was blowing that aside and bringing the air in.

They tacked, and tacked again, picking up on the shifts of wind.

A shift of winds, however, turned the fire back on itself tonight, and the threat of evacuations eased somewhat.

By doing that, a crucial defensive tactic, a shift of wind would not provide the fire fuel needed to roar toward Show Low.

A little shift of wind blew a few drops of rain from off the dripping hood in on to the girl.

Black Betha rode the flood tide, her sail cracking and snapping at each shift of wind.

But a sudden shift of winds produced unacceptable crosswinds on the runway here, 100 miles north of Los Angeles.

"Sudden shift of wind: hot air swirling up off the desert floor hitting the colder air coming down off those mountains."

How long he would have stayed there, he never knew, for glancing up one night at a shift of wind across his fire, he found Raederle.

A shift of wind broke the French line of battle, and the British ships took advantage of this by crossing in two places.

Returning outside, head against a sudden shift of wind, Gronquist dashed around the hut to a small snow-covered shed that protected the project's two snowmobiles.

Sixteen years ago, the sails had cracked and snapped with every shift of wind, until he'd pulled them down and gone on with muffled oars.

But the single runway at the Kennedy center affords the astronauts little leeway for maneuvering in case of last-minute shifts of wind or aiming errors.

But this advantage might vanish with a shift of wind and Kane turned his mount away from the invincible pack, putting the wind to his back.

It changes in response to shifts of sensibility as dramatically as it does to shifts of wind and the changes of the moon.

Odd shifts of wind edged past, periodically sudden gusts of grit billowed into their faces, and Luigi would stop and switch off his torch.

He still gave suppers in his quarters, for he enjoyed company in the evening, but any shift of wind would drive him from the table onto the quarterdeck.

But will and muscle and a shift of wind brought the line close enough to the ring for him to attach the mooring clip, and from there on it was easy.

So situated, we were caught on a lee shore in an eight-point shift of wind at the height of a hurricane that had beaten our souls sick for forty-eight hours.

All the party knew that this sudden desert shift of winds, very probably with the layer of colder air forced underneath the hot, could only mean one thing: a sandstorm was being born.