What is "weathervane"

Usage examples of "weathervane".

What matters is the sight of a weathervane against a violent pink sunset, the sound of his heels on an empty road in Utah, the sound of the wind in the New Mexico desert, the sight of a child skipping rope beside a junked-out Chevrolet Caprice in Fossil, Oregon.

He wants to see the next weathervane standing against the next pink sunset.

Bureau is a reliable weathervane for professional observers of the changing political climate.

Once a prevailing wind is established, that human weathervane snaps quickly into place.

THE BARN was built on the english style and it was sheathed with milled one by fours and painted white and it had a cupola and a weathervane on top of the cupola.

Laio evidently felt the shift in my weathervane and pressed her thigh into me, my scruples weakening as my ardor hardened.

Farther still, against the smoky mountain, was a farmhouse and a big barn with a weathervane of a prancing horse on it.

Birds perched on a whimsical weathervane a witch on a broom up on the garage roof.

I could hear the waves hitting the beach, and the squeaky sound of those weathervanes turning on top of the Agincourt's towers.

Looking at it, Jack saw the weathervanes spin in contradictory directions, the turrets and gambrels rise like warts into the gray air.

The brass weathervanes, wolf and crow and snake and circular cryptic designs Jack did not recognize, swung about to contradictory winds.

Now there was only the sound of the weathervanes — cabalistic brass designs spinning restlessly in the sky.

And the sun glared on the many windows that surrounded the square, on the weathervanes turning on the gabled roofs, on the hot dusty panorama of village life – into which we had passed again.