Permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region.
1 In typical idiosyncratic fashion, O'Brien sailed east to west against the trade winds .
2 The haze is being carried along by the east-northeast trade winds .
3 They had been in what are known as the trade winds .
4 He notices that the waters are swept westward as the trade winds are.
5 The weather was beautiful, and we had got well into the trade winds .
6 On that day we struck the trade winds , and bore S.S.E.
7 By the 16th they had come within the influence of the trade winds .
8 Calms must be avoided and the trade winds caught, in order to facilitate navigation.
9 But trying to the nerves when what we inaccurately call the trade winds begin.
10 There was little cloud-a few bands scattered along the line of the trade winds .
11 It was after reaching the north-east trade winds that the latter's elementary education began.
12 The waves were running before the dry northwest trade winds with crystalline but colorless brilliancy.
13 They appear to be modifications of the trade winds .
14 The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor.
15 The trade winds at this point usually weaken or even reverse entirely, moving warm water eastward.
16 We were ordered to South America; and the trade winds took us there in a jiffy.
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