What is "downdraught"

Usage examples of "downdraught".

Peter turned slowly on the thin steel cable, and the downdraught from the rotors fluttered his camouflage battle-smock about his torso.

It rushed upon him, flurrying snow in its downdraught as it hovered, then moved ahead of him, skimming the ground.

Snow began to blow in the downdraught, fanning out beneath them, whirling up alongside the cabin as they sank lower.

Pnin, twisting his head to look out of one of the ports, saw his staff retreating to a distance where the downdraught would be less distressing.

Immediately, the beat of the rotors increased, and Pnin, twisting his head to look out of one of the ports, saw his staff retreating to a distance where the downdraught would be less distressing.

Halogen lamps blasted the tarmac, and the downdraught from the chopper blades snagged his coat tails.

If they returned to the culvert to see if they could detect her scent in the cleaner air beyond the decomposing raccoon, she would be out of the downdraught that swept the main line, and they might not smell her.

The downdraught formed a cage around him, its bars the needles of rain.

The beat of rotors behind him became louder: he stumbled on, careless of stones and tussocks, waiting for the shadow of the helicopter, the waving of grass as it bent before the downdraught.

She says, 'Get used to it - there are downdraughts hitting the upper face more often than not.

First at a sleek, black dragonfly shape under the gleaming blur of its fan, a shape that blotted the stars in its passing and turned the night to a whirling dervish dust-devil with its downdraught as it sped overhead, then at the torpedo-shapes that tumbled lazily, -end over end, down from its belly like so many elongated eggs.