He prefers windless days for playing golf. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Rose the moon in windless silence –. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Ukraina, With Ruthenian Poems] Reference
With eyes that stared like windless lotus-flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
The day was windless and no leaf moved on any tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
The air was windless and smelled like burning coal. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
The rush and thunder of the falls shook the windless air. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Your hands moving, a chime of bells across a windless air. From Wordnik.com. [American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany] Reference
Office forecasts a windless night and it's raining heavily. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
A week later to the day on a sunshiny, windless morning, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference
It was silent and windless; the grey east wind had passed away. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
Days passed; the snow lay crisp, the sky was clear and windless. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
In the windless calm no leaf seemed to stir in the forest around. From Wordnik.com. [A Loose End and Other Stories] Reference
Trees in a windless silence sprang straight upward from the brink. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
"On windless nights like this, your voices can be heard for miles.". From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Ambient conditions - constant air temperature and windless environment. From Wordnik.com. [6. Measuring Stove Performance] Reference
The night was a windless affair, and the heat was starting to get to me. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
Although a storm raged below, it was warm and windless here at 20,320 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Arlene Blum: Taking Action at 20,000 Feet] Reference
From the power-house a column of steam rose straight and steady into the windless air. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
For all around the windless air smoothed the swirling waves and lulled the sea to rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
It was already day, a windless and sullen morning, and the marsh-reeks lay in heavy banks. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Rain had begun falling, so fine and windless it would hardly wet a man out in it all night. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Rain set in over Flushing Meadows in early afternoon and refused to budge from windless skies. From Wordnik.com. [US Open men's final between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic postponed] Reference
By all accounts Friday, August 1st was a bright blue day in the Karakorum, windless and clear. From Wordnik.com. [Freddie Wilkinson: K2: What The Mainstream Media Isn't Reporting] Reference
The pale orange dust that hung in the windless morning light grew faint and then it too was gone. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
On a hot, windless day, his gray pinstripe suit and white dress shirt are creased and wrinkle-free. From Wordnik.com. [Detective's instincts, persistence led to husband's conviction in Md. slaying] Reference
Saturday morning dawned as hot and dry and windless as had been the other days of the week which had preceded it. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
This view had always been a favorite of his: the clear, windless sight of the sun reflecting off Antarctic snowfields. From Wordnik.com. [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference
The windless gray, the stars, the stone under his feet, stood alone in the universe, each working out its own soul into deed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
The day was windless, and a thick bank of mist around the ship muffled the sounds of the oars and the creak of wood and leather. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
But twenty-year-old Whandall was elsewhere, dripping wet in a windless rain, surrounded by seven sullen Lordkin in their thirties. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
The experts doubt whether in windless rainy conditions the virus will get more than a few hundred yards from its point of release. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
Secured by a solid gold comb, a gauze veil of Tyrian purple covered the back of her head and fell over her spine like a windless flag. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
The gale that had rocked the tall trees in fury but a few days before was almost forgotten in the windless weather that had succeeded it. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
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