gale

Example Sentences

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An icy gale blew incessantly in concert with a torrential deluge.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Once unfurled, it holds up in anything short of a gale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

For a moment, I felt myself transported, like a gale off Lake Michigan had carried us all back through time.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

These will linger longest across northern areas, with rainfall totals enhanced on western hills by strong to gale force winds.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025

We went on for four more days of very bitter cold, never above –25°, and then came another blizzard whooping up in our faces from the east on a gale wind.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin