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
Fortunately the wind kept steady on the port beam, so that the damage to the starboard rigging could be secured without interrupting the progress of the voyage, it being on the leeside.
From Windjammers and Sea Tramps by Walter Runciman
The wind was so favourable that the oars were little needed, save that some on the leeside kept stroke that the ships might make good weathering.
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short
The Great Dividing Range runs this way and I am on the leeside toward the sea.
From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver
The south wind was blowing with such force that I lay down on the leeside of a bush to be sheltered from it.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
