GALE in a Sentence
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58 example sentences for GALE, such as:
1. It was blowing a gale outside.
2. A gale was blowing from the east.
3. The wind was increasing to gale force.
4. The bar erupted into gales of laughter.
5. During the gale roof tiles came hurtling down.
2. A gale was blowing from the east.
3. The wind was increasing to gale force.
4. The bar erupted into gales of laughter.
5. During the gale roof tiles came hurtling down.
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Meanings and Examples of GALE
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gale
n. very strong wind; gust of wind; emotional outburst as laughter or tears
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1 I'm glad," said Carol to Kennicott as they stooped before the northwest gale which was torturing the barren street, "that this is a moral country.
2 But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
3 But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
4 It was during a prolonged gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas.
5 For some days we had very little wind; it was not till the nineteenth that a brisk gale from the northwest sprang up.
6 In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale.
7 The gale that now hammers at us to stave us, we can turn it into a fair wind that will drive us towards home.
8 For during the violence of the gale, he had only steered according to its vicissitudes.
9 I feel strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale; and I may look so.
10 They were out on the waterfront, and from the east a freezing gale was blowing off the ice-bound lake.
11 As Jo waved her hands and gave a sigh of rapture, the family went off into a gale of merriment, and Mr. Laurence laughed till they thought he'd have an apoplectic fit.
12 We let the ships run before the gale, but the force of the wind tore our sails to tatters, so we took them down for fear of shipwreck, and rowed our hardest towards the land.
13 Jove, however, sent the ship's mast within my reach, which saved my life, for I clung to it, and drifted before the fury of the gale.
14 He said he had seen Ulysses with Idomeneus among the Cretans, refitting his ships which had been damaged in a gale.
15 They stayed with me twelve days, for there was a gale blowing from the North so strong that one could hardly keep one's feet on land.
Example Sentence:
1 The wind was increasing to gale force.
2 During the gale roof tiles came hurtling down.
3 A gale was blowing from the east.
4 The wind was still rising, approach-ing a force nine gale.
5 It was blowing a gale outside.
6 The Weather Channel warned viewers about a rising gale, with winds of up to sixty miles per hour.
7 The gale still rising, seemed to my ear to muffle a mournful under-sound; whether in the house or abroad I could not at first tell, but it recurred, doubtful yet doleful at every lull; at last I made out it must be some dog howling at a distance.
8 He turned his ear to the moan of the gale which seemed to breathe out in wrath from the heart of the earth.
9 The bar erupted into gales of laughter.