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Sentence Examples As the rain bucketed down, driven horizontally by a southeast gale, he decided the walk would go ahead. The winds that night blew a full gale, and they piled up seas bigger than I could ever have hoped to handle. Dressed just in pyjamas, they attempted to secure the tent in a howling gale, only to discover a tent pole had broken. When I got outside the store, I found that it was now absolutely teeming with rain and the wind was blowing half a gale. It's an ugly place to be caught on a lee shore with a westerly gale and the tide making. Trim any bushes and lop tree branches that are close to your house, as these could break windows in a gale. We never expected the boat to live in such a fearful gale and sea, but she weathered it bravely. The ro-ro ferry, with 12 passengers on board, lost power in gale force winds while approaching St Margaret's Hope in March. Heavy downpours, gale force winds and rockfalls battered parts of the Eastern Cape throughout the weekend. Although an unexpected strong gale from the north made us shiver in the golf links, everybody was eager to have a go at the game. We have had a storm of apocalyptic proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours. They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the parking-lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale. A violent gale shot upwards, lifting clots of mud into the air, stirring his clothing and hair. Both Whitby's lifeboats had to be launched to rescue five canoeists who put out to sea in a force nine gale on Saturday. Aloft upon the mast, the figure stood, uncompromising to the gale and pitch and yaw of the ship. Ships over taken by the gale were wrecked and sunk and the loss of life was estimated at 8,000 men. I glared menacingly out the window as the wind chime shuddered and rang from the gale. A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet. Despite gale force winds lashing the Oaks complex on Sunday weights were still well spread around the 64-field on Cedar Lake. It was a day when global warming showed that it can survive even in the face of a westerly gale. Show More Sentences It wasn't the biggest or nicest fish but most welcome when conditions were hard and included gale force wind and driving rain. Snow, sleet, driving rain and gale force winds were sweeping across the north west today. Two days out from Almeria we got caught in a brewing gale driving in from the west. In York rain and sleet driven by gale force winds caught many workers on their way home the previous evening. Hours of rain accompanied by strong gale force winds of up to 80 mph contributed to some of the most adverse weather conditions the area has seen in decades. The players had to contend with driving rain and gale force wind. She took one pace forward into the gale and six paces back into the warm. One of the unusual things about this particular storm was that it was a southerly gale and not one of the usual westerlies that tend to affect the south of Britain. In the absence of the traditional gale, the course is easier than any of these pros have ever seen it, soft and receptive with not a whiff of wind in the air. Snow slurries were expected to leave the region shivering today, with the promise of raw northerly winds, possibly gale force, blowing into tomorrow. The black frigatebirds, with their sharply angled wings, ride rising thermals, whereas the white albatrosses, with their long narrow wings, catch a lift on a cold gale. It has rained and blown a gale continuously now for over thirty hours! As stormy weather closes in, delaying passage even longer, Joan's carefully laid plans are dashed upon the rocks by an equally powerful emotional gale. We had a howling gale at our backs in the first half and we decided to show everybody how we could play football instead of leathering it down the other end. The book opens with a metaphor of ships at sea, a small sailing craft that rides out a storm, and a great supertanker crushed by twenty-five meter waves and gale winds. At windswept Dens, he has a near-death experience when he is almost throttled by his own comb-over, 18-inch strands entwining in the gale to form a deadly ligature. In a second life-saving air-sea rescue, 16 Russian seamen were plucked from a 6000 ton cargo ship listing heavily in a force nine gale off the Devon coast yesterday. One of the scenes was when she first gets called to go into The Hunger Games and has to say goodbye to her mother and gale. Yet in this brutal scene where gale is whipped, we witness the violent act. The lightship, itself, in 36 hours of gale force winds was thrown on its beam ends and shipped heavy seas notwithstanding that it was running its engine. Show More Sentences Cape Horn, however, demanded his tribute, and before night sent us a gale of wind directly in our teeth. Unfortunately, Peeta Mellark and gale Hawthorne are not among them. The Spanish were forced to withdraw when a gale blew up and threatened their ships. The same day a second attempt by Legge to attack the landing site again failed by an adverse southwestern gale. Nearly 150 boats crossed the line in a gale of wind that caused several dismastings, and minor disasters. Within the Southern Hemisphere, the depression can have gale force or stronger winds in one or more quadrants, but not near the centre. Taking place in August, the race is often provided with Westerlies that are strong to gale force in strength. Hovertravel suspends the timetable when the wind reaches gale force 8 and above. Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up. On the 22nd the gale moderated, and three of Duff's ships were sent to destroy the beached ships. Through the middle of town there was a clear river which ships and gale junks could sail into. Forecasters typically issue gale warnings when winds of this strength are expected. As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic. Had the vessel been left unscuttled, a heavy gale of wind, and dash of the waves might have preserved some portions of her hull and of the cargo. The snow which had been for some time waning, had given way entirely under the fresh gale of the preceding night. The gale scouring the exposed surface of the mountain had swept the snow surface into a wind-board crust. Neptuno was eventually wrecked off Rota in the gale, while Santa Ana reached port. She met Hawke the next day and he sailed hard for Quiberon into a SSE gale. Thyme, juniper berry, sweet gale, yarrow, rue and peppercress were also used and cultivated in herb gardens. Nelson, fearing that a gale was blowing up, instructed Hardy to be sure to anchor. Show More Sentences When giving a gale warning the Met Office will indicate when it expects the gale to occur. The gale force wind blew every blowable object to the north, including things I didn't even know were blowable, like the roof. In addition, gale warnings are broadcast at other times between programmes and after news. FitzRoy established a network of 15 coastal stations from which visual gale warnings could be provided for ships at sea. He recorded in his diary that the eastern gale had turned it into a conflagration. When we were in the latitude of Martinico, and near making the land, one morning we had a brisk gale of wind, and, carrying too much sail, the main-mast went over the side. We had not sailed twelve hours before we fell in with a gale, which lasted several days, and we kept under close-reef-topsails and storm-staysails. During the first week of November a westerly gale came up and, after three days, the ships of Hawke's blockade were forced to run for Torbay on the south coast of England. The loss of the passenger vessel, the Royal Charter, and 459 lives off the coast of Anglesey in a violent storm in October 1859 led to the first gale warning service. The 1955 Atlantic hurricane season shows Hurricane Ione passing nearby between 14 and 18 September, with Bermuda being affected by winds of almost gale force. Despite cutting the masts to reduce the drag of the wind, Royal Charter was driven inshore, with the steam engines unable to make headway against the gale. The storm, called Xynthia, unleashed gale force winds and torrential rains on Sunday, destroying roads and houses and smashed sea walls along the French coast. German Bight, west or northwest gale 8 to storm 10, imminent. The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval. He saw from the twigs on the ground that a gale had been blowing, and knew it would be the teuchit-storm on which the teuchit, or green plover, is blown home. Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided. In 1911, the Met Office began issuing marine weather forecasts which included gale and storm warnings via radio transmission for areas around Great Britain. However, early on Tuesday morning, the flames jumped over the Fleet and outflanked them, driven by the unabated easterly gale, forcing them to run for it. To discover if I could hack it as Lady Muck, I travelled by plane, car and ferry to reach the island as it was hit by horizontal rain and a howling gale. The cheerful chanty was roared out, and heard above the howl of the gale. Show More Sentences The word gale is derived from the older gail, but its origin is uncertain. Examples from Classical Literature The gale showed no signs of abatement, while the sea had continued to increase. Indeed, communication was not difficult now that the force of the gale was abating. Howbeit she soon forgot this fancy in lazily watching a boat that, in the teeth of the gale, was beating round Alcatraz Island. It has knocked the anticyclone on the flank, taken the teeth out of the gale. By this time the wind was a gale, and he knew it was driving him astern, despite his rowing. So the Pyrenees, with her cargo of fire, was hove to, bitting the teeth of the gale and fighting and smashing the pounding seas. This gale commenced in the afternoon, and blew very heavily all that night. What object can he possibly have in braving three times his force in a gale like this? The schooner had stayed on cashes Banks and had ridden out a gale that had driven other fishermen to shelter. We call every snowstorm a blizzard, every breeze a gale, every shower a cloudburst. I appealed to Temple, whether he thought it possible to read law-books in a cockboat in a gale of wind. The wind rose to a regular gale and the wagon rocked like a cockleshell on a choppy sea. Such noise as it has is elemental, justifiable, like a ship's cordage in a gale. She always won easily in light weather, and it required half a gale for 'Dacia' to get in front of her. New Year's Day opened fiercest of all, with scurries of snow, lowering sky, and a wind that threatened to be a gale before night. I don't know if you remember that equinoctial gale that blew about the 18th or 19th. The fan palm before Mrs. Le Marchant's window, with its fans all pinched and bent, is staggering before the gale. Also, Fitzroy's drum and cone, which show the direction of the expected gale. For the flurries blown by the gale had all the appearance of a continuing blizzard. John had no resource but to put up a forestaysail, and run before the gale. Show More Sentences It may be imagined how piety intensifies in a freshet, or in a heavy gale of wind! The gale must have set us a long way to leeward, as we did not get in for a fortnight. She yaws like a galliot in a gale, and takes the whole road like a drunken man. To-day the groundswell was more active, the waves closer together, not having had time to forget the force of the extinct gale. At Zierikzee, in Zeeland, a whale has been stranded by a high tide and a gale of wind. Across the intervening levels the gale races in a straight line from the fort, as if breathed out of it hitherward. The wind, which blew a gale, uprooted trees and flicked them out of the way as if they were snips of paper. After the gale blew itself out, a fresh breeze succeeded, which enabled them rapidly to run down their southing. After a gale, on looking amongst the wrack cast up by the highest waves, large numbers of our spirula will be found. This first whip of the gale seemed to have the spitefulness of disappointed rage. And then, as to the spooning, it was partie gale, the lady was no worse off than the gentleman. He held her nose up to the open sea, allowing her only steerageway, the gale slithering off her flattened sail. I knew that experience for having outridden many a gale in the mouth of the mighty st. lawrence river. But he had already chucked his share of stockfish and hardtack, to the laughter of Svearek's men, when the gale started. The New York-Boston steamers would keep to the Inside Passage in this gale. The sleet-and-hail squalls following the lightning at the end of a westerly gale are cold and benumbing and stinging and cruel enough. There was a terr'ble gale on, an' they was gettin' the Betty home's fast as they could craowd her. It reefs its sail when a storm threatens or the wind blows pretty hard, and furls it entirely and goes down when a gale blows. But the Field of poppies and daisies begins to sway as under a gale. I think we have now got rid of the foam, as well as of the gale. Show More Sentences The gale hurried on to devastate fresh fields and pastures new. The gibbet remained for three years, and was then blown down in a gale. The gale had been blowing for some days on the Dorsetshire coast. When the ship arrived off dungeness, the gale of the 29th began. No barometer will give warning of an easterly gale, were it ever so wet. I knew she was overloaded, and was afraid of the effects of a gale. An equinoctial gale was raging, or rather had been raging all day. The gale was ending in a clear blow, which gleamed and cut like a knife. I was sure that this was the beginning of the equinoctial gale. The gale still held on, however, and we saw no signs of its abating. Instead, it sprang up to a gale which now and then, from a tattered sky, flung pale sweeps of sunlight over a landscape chaotically tossed. The serried ash-backets were driven this way and that by the gale. Miss Jim Buck',1 outside Beaufort Harbor, with Fort Macon heavin' hot shot at our stern, an' a livin' gale atop of all. This morning we crossed the fjeld to Rus Vand in a gale of wind. They were out on the waterfront, and from the east a freezing gale was blowing off the ice-bound lake. It was a boisterous day, half a gale of wind against the flood tide. It was a hard, long gale, gray clouds and green sea, heavy weather undoubtedly, but still what a sailor would call manageable. Being onstage with him when he danced Stanley Kowalski was like being in a gale wind force. In a gale too strong for other kites, a box kite will fly safely. Above his motionless figure the little cord and tassel on the stiff point of the hood swung about inanely in the gale. Show More Sentences Men and horses dived into the gale as swimmers dive into a breaker. The gale howled and scuffled about gigantically in the darkness, as though the entire world were one black gully. It was in a gale of wind and a simoom of dust, but I greatly enjoyed it. At last came a southeast gale and the San Jose drove before it. That night the gale broke, and before morning it had materially moderated. The ship went on, for a square-rigged craft may not round to in a gale. It was not very long, indeed, before his coat hung with a discouraged sag from his gaunt shoulders and his hair and beard were rumpled as if he had been out in a gale. One must have a silk veil, to protect his face from snow, sleet, hail and gale, and colored goggles to protect his eyes from that dangerous enemy, snow-blindness. But such a gale was blowing that I did not dare attempt to land, and so we passed to the north of them, skirted Land's End, and entered the English Channel. They halted, they stood their ground a moment against that withering deluge of fire, then they broke, faced about and swept toward the ditch like chaff before a gale. And on a black night I have done it under reefs in a gale of wind. For nine months of the year there is only ice and snow, and gale after gale, with a cold that no one can realise who has never seen the thermometer even at zero. A few days later Bert's ship lost her rudder and mainmast in a gale. She will strain much less this way than in quartering across a gale. Then came the rain out of the distance, advancing with the roar of a gale of wind and causing the water of the lagoon to smoke in driven windrows. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of gale? Words that rhyme with gale What is the past tense of gale? What is the plural of gale? What is the adjective for gale? What is the noun for gale? Translations for gale Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Galbraith galbanum Galba galaxy's Galaxy galaxy Gale galea gale force gale-force Galen galena 4-letter Words Starting With g ga gal