How to Use gale in a Sentence

gale

noun

• The boat was damaged in a strong gale.
• The winds approached gale force.
• The audience erupted in gales of laughter.
• 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
• 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
• Tourism vanished like a puff of smoke in a Cape winter gale.
  — Adam Welz, The Atlantic, 7 June 2021
• In Broomfield, winds hit 68 mph, and Boulder saw a gale of 63 mph.
  — Jesse Paul, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2017
• The storm reached its highest wind gusts in St. Mary Parish and gale force winds battered the state for 12 hours.
  — NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
• 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
• Last week, a gale out of the northwest put sea conditions for the opener in doubt.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2018
• Austin Seibert made a pair of fourth-quarter field goals into the gale.
  — John Shinn Diehards, ajc, 19 Nov. 2017
• The gale that followed Harvey every six years used to be called Irene.
  — Jonah Engel Bromwich, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• The mistakes leading to the grounding did not begin with the gale that morning.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• There’s lots of gale-force wind, pouring rain, shouting, and drama as the storm tosses the poor Artemis about the ocean.
  — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2017
• On the Bering Sea, there are gale force winds, sudden storms, floating ice, and long distances that can make rescue impossible.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 5 June 2024
• Tim said with enthusiasm, startling the hotel’s staff (and us) into gales of laughter.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024