29 examples of windshield in sentences

He jammed on the brake and brought it to a standstill so abruptly that Betty came very near to pitching through the windshield.

When the car stopped he had stood up in his place beside the chauffeur as if meaning to get out, but rather remained motionless, resting a hand on the windshield and thoughtfully gazing northwards along the road that, skirting the grounds of the Château de Montalais, disappeared from view round the sleek shoulder of a hill.

Liane Delorme breathlessly demanded: "What is it?" "An old trick," Lanyard explained: "A wire cable stretched between trees diagonally across the road, about as high as the middle of the windshield.

In the seat beside the driver of the grey car a man rose and, steadying himself by holding onto the windshield, poured out the contents of an automatic, presumably hoping to puncture the tires of the quarry.

A bullet bored a neat hole through the windshield between the heads of Liane Delorme and Jules.

" He stooped behind the windshield and lighted a cigarette.

Hello!" He strained forward, peering around the windshield.

In our Belgian car, decorated with all the American flags we could find, and "American Consular Service" pasted in huge letters on the windshield and side flaps, we raced along the Boulevard de l'lndustrie, swung into the southern suburbs, and, once outside the city limits, we opened up the exhaust and threw down the throttle as Van Hee shouted out the order:"To Termonde!"

Once out of the town limits of Ghent we bowled along at top speed, with the American colors trembling fore and aft and impressive- looking signs pasted on windshield and side-flaps.

Fog: a telephone pole seen through a windshield.

Jamie went through the windshield.

A pickup passed at high speed, hitting a pothole and splattering mud across the windshield.

The sleet slapped viciously against his windshield and stuck there.

Spike shoved his windshield up in order to afford a vision of the icy asphalt ahead.

Frozen stiff, I was, drivin' right into the wind eastward along East End Avenue, and I had to raise the windshield a bit because there was ice on it

Stella saw the spray leap like a cascade, saw the solid green curl deep over the forward deck and engine hatch and smash the low windshield.

He moved back behind the wrecked windshield where the steering gear stood.

Juanita Sterling, in the last of the procession, watched the gay little imps dance across the windshield and thought glad thoughts.

But by two American flags mounted on the windshield, and the explanatory legends "Service Consulaire des Etats-Unis d'Amerique" and "Amerikanischer Consular dienst" painted in staring letters on the hood, we hoped to make it quite clear to Germans and Belgians alike that we were protected by the international game-laws so far as shooting us was concerned.

"Halt!" I jammed on the brakes so suddenly that we nearly went through the windshield.

To these helpless, homeless, hopeless people, the red-white-and-blue banner that streamed from our windshield really was a flag of the free.

But shiver my windshield if he wasn't a professor in a college!

Out of the whirlwind poked the pugnacious little brass-rimmed nose of a new Ford, and behind the windshield Casey Ryan grinned widely as he swung up to the postoffice and stopped as he had always stopped his four-horse stage,with a flourish.

And the insecure fourth Bohunk in the tonneau went hurtling forward into the front seat straight on his way through the windshield.

"She's a-wettin' up that red lake a-plenty," observed Casey, squinting through the dirty windshield.

29 examples of  windshield  in sentences