lea

Example Sentences

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Alongside him has been Michael Ellam, who returned to government in January to lea, at an officials-level, the negotiations with the EU.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

Below us, the mountains rested under a knitted duvet of forest green, its smoothness only occasionally disturbed by the dropped stitch of a house or a small pea-green lea.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021

Eli Manning, held to 156 yards and five INTs last year in 23-0 Seattle shutout, has 137 yards already as Giants lea 14-7.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2014

Anyone who has taken the ferry across to Stromness may be familiar with the sight of the lighthouse looming out of the mist, just as the ship reaches the lea of the islands.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2013

It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, “onding on snaw,” canopied all; thence flakes fell at intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë