The phrase "a gale-force wind" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe very strong winds, typically in weather reports or discussions about storms.
Example: "The forecast predicts a gale-force wind, so we should secure all outdoor furniture before the storm hits."
Alternatives: "strong winds" or "high winds".
She was like a gale-force wind".
A small figure leans into a gale-force wind, as leafy trees succumb to it.
That's an indicator of a gale-force wind that Perriello was never likely to survive.
A gale-force wind machine blows all the air away from the door as it closes.
To make matters worse, a gale-force wind screamed down the beach.
A gale-force wind is emanating from the boy's mouth, but the dad, reassuringly, won't let go.
"Isn't it utterly magical?" he roars into a gale force wind so strong it almost knocks the breath from you.
Before long, like her, nothing short of a gale force wind with pigeon-sized hailstones was going to stop me from experiencing this feeling every day.
I dined on rattle snake, survived a gale force wind that swept through camp and turned my tent upside down, and ascended to about 7,000ft above sea level on a mule – my only means of transport.
At its heart, it is deeply idealistic in its intent: 'Words are strong and love is the other way forwards.' Solomon's experience of depression, which comes like a gale force wind and departs quietly, forms only part of The Noonday Demon, though it is the emotional undertow through the whole of it.
My trip had begun three days earlier in the pretty harbour town of Stavanger, where I stayed the night before making the three-hour bus journey to Øygardstøl, for the first hike to Kjerag boulder, a tough five-hour walk including an ascent of a sheer rock face using metal rungs that ended in a gale force wind hitting me like a smack in the face on the cliff top.
