leeside
Example Sentences
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The addition of a foehn affect - a warming wind on the leeside of a mountian - meant that north-west Wales saw the highest temperatures.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
The earth trembles; the hillock, on the leeside of which we are, rocks and shakes; and the air grows thick and suffocating—full of dust and saltpetre and sulphur.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
When they got on board he found her a chair on the leeside of the boat.
From The Phantom Lover by Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres
We ran up under the leeside of the island just forty-four hours after leaving Millé, a trifle over eleven knots an hour.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood
The deck was like the wall of a house, and, when I saw the foaming sea rising up on the leeside as high as the hatches, I felt sure she was turning bottom up.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
