Sentence examples for winter gale from inspiring English sources

At the Bishop Rock Light, on the English Channel, during a winter gale in 1860 a bell was wrenched from its attachment, a hundred feet above high water.

While riding across Minnesota prairie during winter gale, temperature 46° below zero, saw sharp-shinned hawk seize snow bunting at high speed.

During the height of this winter gale, the resident engineer watched the onslaught of the waves from the cliff above the breakwater.

Like most places in the capital city, which is a peninsula jutting into the North Sea, Laugardalsvöllur is a few minutes' walk from the water, less if you're traveling by freezing winter gale.

And sometimes when we invent, it is like a kind of remembering: "I imagine an old seafarer dozing by the fire, landlubbered at last, and the winter gale rattling the window frames.

I kept saying that failing to do this is like having a woolly jumper but no windproof anorak, and that we want intentional ventilation (through trickle vents, for example) rather than the winter gale we used to have in the bathroom.

Summer fog stops flights more often than winter gales.

The winter gales and rain started, bringing acres of mud.

During some winter gales, he obtained records of wave force as great as six thousand pounds to the square foot.

No one can be exactly sure what climate change will bring but, in Britain, we can expect more flooding and winter gales, drier summers, water shortages, and more food poisoning and skin cancer.

Once we had planted it, we staked it against winter gales and fenced it from bark-gnawing deer and rabbits with a slightly manic resolve: cocooned in ugly chicken wire, this absurd-looking legacy would live on.