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 leeside of us lay full of flats and dangers, inevitable if the wind blew hard at south.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Hayes, Edward, fl. 1580.

The wind blew in such fierce gusts over the bleak and desolate range of crags on which I stood that I was glad enough to seek shelter down on the leeside.

From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)

The Great Dividing Range runs this way and I am on the leeside toward the sea.

From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen

Gliding back to his friends, he found them ready for a start, and after seeing all outside in a safe place well on the leeside of the rock, he again crept into the tunnel.

From Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa by Fletcher, Lawrence