Sentence examples for a powerful gale from inspiring English sources

On June 27 , 1824 a trading vessel en route from Mauritius to England was caught in a powerful gale.

An initial investigation showed that the boat was overloaded with nearly 80 people; it was designed to carry only 12. PAGE A9 FRANCE AND SPAIN STILL RECOVERING France and Spain struggled to restore electricity to more than a million homes after powerful gales of more than 100 miles an hour swept across both countries on Saturday, leaving at least 15 people dead, including 4 children.

In northern Spain and southern France, the powerful gales cut power supplies and closed airports and roads.

In his fourth and final voyage, an adventure as Homeric as any found in the pages of history, Columbus explored the coasts of Central America, discovered the Mayan civilization, battled mutineers within his own ranks, piloted his ships through powerful gales, was marooned on a Jamaican beach for an entire year and cowed a group of menacing Indians by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse.

MADRID — France and Spain struggled to restore electricity to more than a million homes on Sunday after powerful gales swept across both countries on Saturday, leaving at least 15 people dead, including 4 children.

Powerful gales from supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies can blast gas and other raw materials right out of the galaxy, robbing it of the raw materials needed to make new stars, a new study suggests.

Gale is a "leader of men," full of a powerful, almost righteous belief in Yorkshire's right to rule the earth.

On August 31, Katrina was absorbed by a frontal boundary and became a powerful extratropical low, causing 1.97 6.69 inches (50 170 mm) of rain in 12 hours, as well as gale-force wind gusts from 31 to 61 mph (50 to 98 km/h) in southeastern Quebec and northern New Brunswick.

Or a powerful sedative.

He is a powerful, powerful drummer.

Use a powerful camera.