LEE in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for LEE, such as:
1. There are lees to every wine.
2. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
3. The wind was so strong that we ran to the lee of the house.
4. We had better get under the lee of the hedge until the rain stops.
5. The wind had been powerful on the steps, but on the platform, under the lee of the carriages, there was a lull.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LEE
lee
 n.  United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
 n.  United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)
Classic Sentence:
1  In the lee of the stonily mature trio Carol proceeded to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  There's your true Ashantee, gentlemen; there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronising lee of churches.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
3  The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night ...
4  They went towards the extreme stern, on the ship's lee side, where the deck, with the oblique energy of the wind, was now almost dipping into the creamy, sidelong-rushing sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
5  We stopped under the lee of the lobster-outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
6  The wind had been powerful on the steps, but on the platform, under the lee of the carriages, there was a lull.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
7  He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
8  Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
9  O, it is a rich abbey-stede, and they do live upon the fat, and drink the sweet wines upon the lees, these good fathers of Jorvaulx.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence:
1  The wind was so strong that we ran to the lee of the house.
2  We had better get under the lee of the hedge until the rain stops.
3  There are lees to every wine.