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Recent Examples of windbreak
There are several native evergreen shrubs, for example, that make excellent windbreaks.
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Pamela Noensie, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2025
Try to include a variety of plants in your windbreak.
—Pamela Noensie, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2025
Or build a temporary windbreak by stretching burlap between two stakes or over a lattice frame.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025
Provide a windbreak for the birds near the birdbath.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2024
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Pamela Noensie, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2025
Try to include a variety of plants in your windbreak.
—Pamela Noensie, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2025
Or build a temporary windbreak by stretching burlap between two stakes or over a lattice frame.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025
Provide a windbreak for the birds near the birdbath.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for windbreak
Noun
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In this case, the lean-to was reportedly formed by downed trees.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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One time, alone in a lean-to of sticks in Florida, something huge blackened the night nearby.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside Online,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The palisade walls and structural support beams that hold up the fort are made to look like wood but are constructed of concrete.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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But what are the other buildings impacted by palisades fires?—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The iCloud account also showed photos of a shed located in a wooded area behind a Mason home.—
Cameron Knight,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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The sheds are 8 feet by 10 feet and are fully stocked with food, clothing and living essentials.—
Chelsea Torres,
FOXNews.com,
2 July 2025
Noun
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The researchers think the camp was built in the second century C.E. Over the years, archaeologists have found many forts, towers, cemeteries, canals and temporary military camps along the Limes.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
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The city's three forts — rough affairs at best — stood in South, North and East Austin.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Since its launch, the CUDA ecosystem has created an impenetrable fortress of developer lock-in that competitors have failed to breach despite years of effort.—
Steven Wolfe Pereira,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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City Hall, Albany—these have been fortresses of political entrenchment for a century.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
25 June 2025
Noun
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Once a royal residence turned military stronghold, its subterranean spaces include powder magazines and storerooms that played a vital role in its defense, illustrating medieval fortification architecture.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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The company has also been a Tennessee stronghold on the Fortune 500 for over a decade.—
Hadley Hitson,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Princess Kate and Prince William chatted with their fellow coach riders through the streets of Windsor, heading to the castle in grand fashion.—
Stephanie Petit,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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There's a medieval castle and monasteries, plus Victorian mansions and gardens.—
Andrea Bussell,
Travel + Leisure,
7 July 2025
Noun
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But the Assembly Public Safety Committee—the redoubt of progressive opposition to crime bills—quietly blocked it.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
1 June 2025
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Early on June 17, patriot soldiers built a redoubt, or temporary fortification, on top of Breed’s Hill, located next to Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts.—
Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
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“Windbreak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windbreak. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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