gale

Example Sentences

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An icy gale blew incessantly in concert with a torrential deluge.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Once unfurled, it holds up in anything short of a gale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

For a moment, I felt myself transported, like a gale off Lake Michigan had carried us all back through time.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

South Africa has been hit by heavy snow, rains and gale force winds that have officially claimed the lives of 14 people, nine from the floods and five in a road accident.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

Forgotten was the smell of horses, the motion less waiting, the sudden terror of gale and lightning.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare