lee

Example Sentences

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"When I saw Jerry lee Lewis I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen apart from Little Richard - and then I saw Elton," he says.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

“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 mayday call was picked up after the Destination left the lee of St. George Island and entered turbulent seas.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2019

After a mile, I’m wishing I could just wheel my bike into a shadow in the lee of some house and disappear.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson