Sentence examples for a gale blew from inspiring English sources

The following evening a gale blew up, scattering the Spanish and French fleet allowing Howe to sail unopposed into Gibraltar.

A gale blew strongly the following day and despite their best efforts, they stayed offshore for a further night.

He was badly drawn in the Queen's Vase and then had a gale blowing into his face in the Northumberland Plate.

No amount of kit is going to help if there's a gale blowing; grin and bear it – it's part of the fun!

It's a house to hunker down in, to get out the Scrabble and whisky, light the stove and settle in for the night with a gale blowing outside.

It's just that is does all this with a sense of pluck, as if saying: "You didn't expect me to be able to overtake that lorry in a winter storm with the rain lashing in and a gale blowing did you?" And throughout my West Country odyssey, the ride was smooth and compliant, the engine refined at normal speeds and economical throughout.

With a gale blowing up from the south west, Lydiard decided to return to port.

According to author and former Oxford rower George Drinkwater, "there was a gale blowing... which met a spring tide, so that the water was very rough from the start".

A huge gale blew up and, looking at the sea, she experienced "an overwhelming sense of the power of Almighty God".

The delay proved disastrous: two days after departing, a westerly gale blew up, dispersing the fleet and driving the ships back to port.

A terrible gale blew up that night and when it finally subsided there was the sandbar, "covered with wrecks of ships and bodies of drowned men".