lee

Example Sentences

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Because of the south-easterly wind direction, places like Aultbea lie in the lee of the Cairngorm mountains.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

The winds developed as a strong low pressure zone intensified in the lee of Rocky Mountains.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2021

“The holloway is absence,” Macfarlane explains; “a wood-way worn away by buried feet. … Walking, running, hiding man, huddled in the lee of a tree.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2020

The surrounding hills are grass beige and winter sagebrush gray-green, with pale white drifts of snow in the lee of ridges.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2019

“No. A storm drove me on a lee shore, and I lost my anchor to windward.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham