1.   Ice quickly covered my windshield, almost instantly blocking my view.

2.   Internet sites spring up about as quick as lovebugs cover your windshield.

3.   My windshield was just covered with rain.

4.   While soap suds covered the windshield, I thought about how much pleasure this one-person enterprise had given me over the past few years.

5.   For the first time, the children were driven in an armored bus with metal grates covering the windshield as protection against stones, he said.

6.   Residents covered car windshields with old cloth or cardboard to protect from the potentially damaging gravel.