Sentence examples for up a gale from inspiring English sources

On one side of the Tyne, the often sedate Gateshead Sage was stuffed with fairy lights, liberated of seating and turned into a giant party; across the river, a colourful brass band blew up a gale in the Ouseburn streets.

So is this a sign that the gloom about the North Sea industry can be put aside - that this is evidence of the second wind blowing up a gale?

It wasn't strong enough to hold the nest up in a gale but it was a great idea.

We had driven to a field that sloped off to the edge of a cliff and tried to put a tent up in a gale.

One-line gagster Tim Vine came along to put an inflatable tent up in a gale and tell a joke about tornadoes while Marcus Brigstocke helped out with a hand-held turbo-something designed to blow snowboarders back up a slope.

No ship in the world could have stood up against so violent a gale".

"As far back as 1971 John Arlott wrote: 'It may be true that English cricket as we know it is dying.' [Then] the fixture list was stable and ordered, like a good filing system – now matches are scattered everywhere as if picked up and carried by a gale".

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

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

During the afternoon of 12 October, a gale sprang up which inflicted further damage to the battered ships and caused water to gush through the many shot holes in the ships' hulls.

Nelson, fearing that a gale was blowing up, instructed Hardy to be sure to anchor.