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 was so favourable that the oars were little needed, save that some on the leeside kept stroke that the ships might make good weathering.

From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Short, Richard

We hurried over to the leeside of the rock, and at once embarked the two women with the infant, who seemed to be totally exhausted.

From A Yacht Voyage Round England by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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.

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)