Sentence examples for gale at from inspiring English sources

— like "a hard gale at sea, passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel".

It meant Exeter trailed by only four points at half-time and would now have the gale at their backs.

When a tour of the older sections of the island took us to its edges, a driving rain created the sensation of being in a gale at sea.

He had to skipper a boat in a force 10 gale at the age of 18, which blew me away, and that was how he justified doing it.

In a gesture to the watchmaker's marine heritage, the pen comes with a specially designed travel inkwell for easy refilling — perfect for keeping the ship's log updated in a Force 8 gale at sea.

The Kangaroos looked in big trouble when they were only six points up at the final break and facing the prospect of kicking into a gale at Blundstone Arena.

Wildman-Tobriner, the runner-up to Weber-Gale at the trials, said he took one breath, between the 25- and 30-meter mark.

"We want to know our ancestors better," said Mark MacNeil, 12, after attending a class in which he heard a Gaelic ghost story and learned songs about heroic sailors surviving gales at sea and hunters pursuing fleet deer in wild forests.

But gales at the landing site delayed their departure.

Though there are other George W. cabinet picks whose political views goad Democrats -- Gale Norton at Interior and Linda Chavez at Labor -- Mr. Ashcroft is a full-service partisan pinata.

Because the gale arrived at night, the death toll was relatively small — eighteen in England and four in France.