How to Use gale in a Sentence

gale

noun
Definition of galenext
Synonyms for galenext
  • The boat was damaged in a strong gale.
  • The winds approached gale force.
  • The audience erupted in gales of laughter.
  • Gales took off and scored on a 10-yard run on the final play of the second quarter.
    — Lamond Pope, Lake County News-Sun, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The gale that followed Harvey every six years used to be called Irene.
    — Jonah Engel Bromwich, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The potential for high seas and gale force winds exists through Thursday.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 21 June 2017
  • As well as a risk of rip currents and rough seas, prompting gale warnings and small craft advisories.
    — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Tim said with enthusiasm, startling the hotel’s staff (and us) into gales of laughter.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Firefighters struggled on Saturday to contain dozens of wildfires fanned by gale force winds on the islands and in southern parts of the country’s mainland.
    — Reuters, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • The grandiose plans McGregor envisioned of disrupting the boxing universe collapsed like a house of straws overtaken by gale force winds.
    — By Santos A. Perez, miamiherald, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Officials have said power lines toppled by gale-force winds the first night may have sparked the conflagration, though the official cause remained under investigation.
    — Fortune, 14 Oct. 2017
  • The sun is a particle accelerator, a ball of plasma, a self-sustaining thermonuclear reactor, a gale of mass and energy, the source of all life.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Midterm losses by his party, however mild, remain a virtual certainty, but an economic downturn could turn an adverse breeze into gale force winds pretty quickly.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The ball got caught in the gale and then plunked down in the canyon.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Adames hopped in a van and drove through gale-force winds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
  • To open one of Barry’s books is to be hit by a great gale of talk.
    — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Once the door is shut, gale-force winds that top out around 78 mph blow for about a minute.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • That no man or god or gale-force wind can snatch it away.
    — Lily Houston Smith, The Atlantic, 23 June 2022
  • And his note serves as an eerie reminder that there’s still more to learn about the these swirling gales.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
  • In the recent rash of nor’easters, the Shore has been spared the worst of onshore gales since winds were mostly out of the north.
    — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Caught in a gale with huge waves that filled the lower holds with water.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
  • In a gale, waves broke over the boat, got below the cover and were filling it.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Tourism vanished like a puff of smoke in a Cape winter gale.
    — Adam Welz, The Atlantic, 7 June 2021
  • Forecasters warned mariners along the Texas coast to be on guard for gale-force winds.
    — CBS News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But that’s a far cry from the the hurricane-force gale with gusts up to 99 mph that hit the area on Tuesday.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Facing a cold and hurling gale, Quinn pushed in a 39-yard kick to cut the lead to a single point.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 12 Nov. 2022
  • And may there be a gale-force book of his poems in your hand, dear reader.
    — Colin Fleming, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed / When the gales of November came early.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2023
  • Forty-eight straight hours of gale-force winds blew lake water ashore, causing the ice.
    — Alex Chaet, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Shepherd stepped down into the hole where the roots were to show the massive damage a gale can do.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 29 May 2021

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