leeside

Example Sentences

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The addition of a foehn affect - a warming wind on the leeside of a mountian - meant that north-west Wales saw the highest temperatures.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The wind blew in such fierce gusts over the bleak and desolate range of crags on which I stood that I was glad enough to seek shelter down on the leeside.

From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)

The deck was like the wall of a house, and, when I saw the foaming sea rising up on the leeside as high as the hatches, I felt sure she was turning bottom up.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.

The Great Dividing Range runs this way and I am on the leeside toward the sea.

From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen

When they got on board he found her a chair on the leeside of the boat.

From The Phantom Lover by Ayres, Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred)