The navigator also had to add any movement of the ship to the side caused by waves or the wind.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

I was born on the plains where the wind blows free, and there is nothing to break the light of the sun.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

It was so dry that horses and cows started to dry up and blow away in the wind.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

They said the overall strength of storms measured by wind speed might increase two to eleven percent by the year twenty-one hundred.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

Many people think the search for cleaner energy leads only to renewable resources like sun,wind and water.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Scientists use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to measure the intensity of storms based on wind speed.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

"Want me to go back along with you in the cart and wind it for you,Ranse?"

VOA: special.2009.11.14

This time,scientists hope to learn more about the formation, wind speed and shape of tornadoes.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

It takes the right combination of wind,temperature,pressure and humidity to create even a weak tornado.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Cloth sails were used to catch the wind to move a ship through the water.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Don't forget to wind the clock tonight." "You are goin' to your brother Ed's?"

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Warm air rising from below causes the wind tube to reach toward the ground.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

He wanted to play music that showed the power of fire and stars just for the old man, and with the storm and the wind to join him.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

A few days later the wind began to blow about their fields.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

It is cold outside. The wind blows to make it even colder.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

But birds or the wind can reintroduce them to the land.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

The wind began to blow stronger.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Crozier says the wind patterns that are pushing the volcanic dust towards Europe are expected to persist for days to come.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

If a large financial institution should ever fail, we will have the tools to wind it down without endangering the larger economy."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"And there is no way to know if the current or the wind or the waves or what is going to affect it.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Meteorologists and aviation authorities are monitoring wind direction and the ash cloud's movement from Iceland to determine where and when to shut down airspace in Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15