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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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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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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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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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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The door was leeward, but we all knew that later the wind would shift.† (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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It was a teetering three-story clapboard building, leaning leeward, locked and dark.† (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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"Do you know about the Leeward and Windward Islands?" he asked me.† (source)
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The boat rolled violently leeward and the man whose skull was ripped open plunged over the side into the madness of the darkness below.† (source)
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Not the Windward or Leeward Island colonies, mark you, but within, of course, the Greater of the two Antilles (while the precision of my prose may be, at times, laborious, it is necessary that I identify myself to you clearly).† (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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