lee

Example Sentences

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"When I saw Jerry lee Lewis I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen apart from Little Richard - and then I saw Elton," he says.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

Winds also lift over and through crenulated ridgelines and careen downhill, accelerating with gravity on the lee sides of mountains, which is the side facing the ocean and densely populated coastal Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2022

The winds developed as a strong low pressure zone intensified in the lee of Rocky Mountains.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2021

However, there was a stretch of shore, across the lake, that offered a bit of a lee, so our party of anglers snaked our way there along a four-wheel track.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2019

We moved on through the line and joined the others squatting in the lee of half-raised walls, dabbing courteously at what was, for almost everyone there, an inedible concoction.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston