noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
windscreen wiper
windshield wiper
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
windscreen
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Matters grew worse by the minute as Father pressed on, windscreen wipers working furiously.
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Then on towards Amiens with the windscreen wipers going flip-flop as we drove past sodden barns and soaking cattle.
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The windscreen wipers sounded asthmatic, fighting a losing battle against the insistent rain.
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As soon as the sergeant turned off the windscreen wipers a curtain of mist was breathed across the glass.
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Operate the windscreen wipers or something?
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In a couple of seconds the aerial had gone and the windscreen wipers had also been wrenched off.
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The windscreen wipers droned on and on.
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The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water, bringing visibility down to a few feet.
■ NOUN
windshield
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There was a parking ticket neatly tucked under the windshield wiper .
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All along the windshield wipers they got wedged under with legs and wings in disarray.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As soon as the sergeant turned off the windscreen wipers a curtain of mist was breathed across the glass.
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Cars were edging forward with barely controlled impatience to the steady whiplash accompaniment of their windscreen wipers.
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That is, there is an additional type of condition which obtains when the wipers start-not ten in all but eleven.
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The wipers kept knocking slivers of the ice off the windscreen.
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The column stalks are fine: indicators, lights and horn on the left, wipers on the right.
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There was a parking ticket neatly tucked under the windshield wiper .
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This point means that where a motor vehicle is required to be fitted with wipers it must also have washers.
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We do not believe that whatever the situation had been, if the switch was flipped, the wipers would have started.