How to use gale in a sentence

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• Sailing into the gale, we managed only a fraction of our usual knottage.From the entry knottage
• The gale strained the timbers of the ship.From the entry strain
• There was a strong wind setup at the south end of the lake after a day of northerly gales.From the entry setup
• The gale force wind blew every blowable object to the north, including things I didn't even know were blowable, like the roof.From the entry blowable
• They include rosemary, bog myrtle (sweet gale), coriander, caraway, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, juniper, milfoil, mugwort and yarrow.2013, Encyclopaedia of Brewing. From the entry gruitbeer
• It's an area of almost constant high wind and frequent gales, often exceeding hurricane strength.1998, Derek Lundy, chapter 1, in Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters, page 5. From the entry roaring forties
• Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 288. From the entry buffet
• No, I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pad.1937, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, page 97. From the entry fart in the wind
• Strange to say, the gale, after easing to a mild breeze, recrudesced in a sort of afterclap.1915, Jack London, chapter 46, in The Mutiny of the Elsinore, New York: Macmillan, page 332. From the entry afterclap
• Gale, the chief people officer, wrote in the memo.2026 April 23, Mike Isaac, Eli Tan, “Meta to Lay Off 10 Percent of Work Force in A.I. Push”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry unwelcome
• Ernie Yost: We were in a forty knot gale.2004, November 23, Roger Director, NCIS, season 2, episode 7 “Call of Silence”. From the entry slop shoot
• Gale shifted into full throttle back pedal.2003, Jennifer Hendricks with Gordon Hendricks, Slim to None: A Journey Through the Wasteland of Anorexia Treatment, page 176. From the entry full throttle
• Part of the shed was recently blown down in a gale and has been removed, leaving rather inadequate accommodation.1951 June, “Notes and News: Eskdale Railway Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 424. From the entry blow down
• The gale scouring the exposed surface of the mountain had swept the snow surface into a wind-board crust.1925, Ernest Hemingway, Cross-Country Snow. From the entry wind-board
• Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up.1911, Jack London, “Make Westing”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories. From the entry pipe up
• It was for a north-west gale, veering to south-west (i.e. a normal Cape Horner, which was bound to last for at least three days).2016, Edward Allcard, Solo around Cape Horn, page 95. From the entry Cape Horner
• The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 337, about St Abbs. From the entry spume
• A strong southwest gale was blowing.1961, Edmund C. Jaeger, Desert Wildlife, Stanford University Press, page 169. From the entry wingbeat
• Cold and rugged it was, lashed by furious gales that tore with futile fury at the plasteel dome which Elmer Dunk called home.1942 March, Gord Peck, “He Was Poor...But He Was Honest”, in Censored, volume 1, number 3, St. Andrew's College, Aurora, page 7. From the entry plasteel
• I look forward to seeing it as I gaze at a flight of doves whitebreasted, white-winged, swift of flight against the fury of a gale.1919 November, “Church Spires”, in Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, volume 102, page 851. From the entry flight
• In the teeth of a full gale, a real Cape Horner, he struggled to lower all sail whilst facing the biggest seas he had ever experienced.2018, Nicholas Gray, Astronauts of Cape Horn. From the entry Cape Horner
• Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise., Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140. From the entry neoteric
• Tube trains create a piston effect, which forces gales of air through the stations on the line, and sweeps debris along the track—causing a fire risk.1999 November 4, Dick Murray, “East to west in 62 minutes”, in Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2. From the entry platform-edge door
• Galen, for the status mixtus gives the example of an inflammation of the eye with discharge: the inflammation itself is a case of constriction whereas the discharge indicates relaxation.1996, Plinio Prioreschi, A History of Medicine: Roman medicine, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry status mixtus
• S. mariners is Captain Ahab, the vindictive old salt who sailed the southern oceans screaming for more canvas, cursing tired crews, laughing wildly into the gale.1931 November 23, “Heroes: Almost Ahab”, in Time. From the entry old salt
• After the gale, the tree has had sufficient vitality to continue its growth, and so enfold its crippled stem in a new sheath of sound wood.1905, Scientific American: Supplement, volume 59, page 24433. From the entry druxy
• While bound east, latitude 41 degrees, longitude 56 degrees 54 minutes, during a northerly gale with very high rolling seas, used storm oil through forward waste pipe with good effect.1914, Leslie's, page 322. From the entry storm oil

Meaning of gale

1. verb To cry; groan; croak.
2. verb To talk.
3. verb To sing; utter with musical modulations.

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Questions about gale in a sentence

How do you use gale in a sentence?

Gale is used as a verb and noun. For example: “It's blowing a gale outside.”

What is a short sentence with gale?

“a gale of laughter”

What does gale mean?

Gale means to cry; groan; croak.