weather gauge
Example Sentences
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The Esmeraldo Weather Center in Camagüey registered winds of more than 124 miles per hour before part of the weather gauge blew off.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2017
For many hours the wind blew easterly, but at three in the afternoon it shifted to the south and gave the enemy the weather gauge.
From Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow by Strang, Herbert
I have to be kind of sharp and straight up and down in my dealin's; they'd get the weather gauge on me a dozen times a day if I wa'n't.
From Thankful's Inheritance by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
Because the Austrians started with the weather gauge in their favor, being on the upper side of the great ridges, it was necessary for the Italians to get their guns as high as they could.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
My weather gauge says it's eighty-eight degrees below freezo.
From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Adams, Andy
