Sample Sentences forleeward (auto-selected)
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She steered around to the leeward side of the bar and, in the stiller waters, beached as gently as a first kiss. (source)leeward = the direction toward which the wind is blowing
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Finding three large sycamores growing close together, we stopped on the leeward side.† (source)
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The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that leeward and windward side were clearly differentiated.† (source)
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About fifty miles short of Barbers Point, a base on the leeward side of Oahu, his crew spotted something.† (source)
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I loved the old fort, and the schooners, the Ruyterkade market with the noisy chickens and squealing pigs, the black people shouting; I loved the koenoekoe with its giant cactus; the divi-divi trees, their odd branches all on the leeward side of the trunk; the beautiful sandy beach at West-punt.† (source)
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An editorial pleaded for the exercise of common sense as Wilson moved to declare war; another celebrated the recent extension of ferry service to the leeward side of the island.† (source)
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The boats were pulled more apart; Starbuck giving chase to three whales running dead to leeward.† (source)
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By the second week of March, as Adams was preparing to leave for Quincy, word reached Philadelphia that the American frigate Constellation, under Captain Thomas Truxtun, had captured the French frigate L'Insurgent, after a battle near the island of Nevis in the Leewards, the first major engagement of the undeclared war at sea.† (source)
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No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug.† (source)
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Of course, to the world outside, an earthquake down here wouldn't rate six lines buried in the last pages of the want ads, but rumors are flying around the Leewards.† (source)
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The door was leeward, but we all knew that later the wind would shift.† (source)
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It was a teetering three-story clapboard building, leaning leeward, locked and dark.† (source)
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"Do you know about the Leeward and Windward Islands?" he asked me.† (source)
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As the wind changed direction I moved Rocinante to keep her always to leeward of our big oaks.† (source)
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On the wall beyond the counter a list of nearby "Out Isles" was next to a larger column of the well-known Leeward and Windward Islands from St. Kitts and Nevis south to the Grenadines.† (source)
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The wind is blowing hard now and is chilly, but the sun is warm and we lay out our jackets and helmets on the grass on the leeward side of the church for a rest.† (source)
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