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Recent Examples of leeward
Adjective
Further north, on the off-the-grid Cayo Frances, learn to fish from legendary fly fisherwoman Lori-Ann Murphy, and enjoy the placid, shallow waters of the leeward side of the island.—Ali Wunderman, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2020 This means that the leeward side of these landforms is usually drier and often protected from the high wind.—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
Noun
For instance, mature bucks often bed on leeward ridges, ridge endings, bench edges, and more.—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024 This is one reason leeward ridges are so attractive to deer.—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for leeward
The heaviest rain is forecast for windward and mauka locations.
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The Sunset AI Lab,
Sunset Magazine,
10 May 2024
For plants, such walls are edges that separate patches of ground into zones that are sunny or shady, windward or leeward, uphill or downhill, wetter or drier.
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Robert M. Thorson,
Discover Magazine,
9 Dec. 2023
This April 3, 2025, photo taken at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, shows fragments of the Japanese Zero fighter that a kamikaze pilot flew into the side of the USS Missouri during the Battle of Okinawa on April 11, 1945.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
The Jersey City Police Department is taking the lead on the investigation since the helicopter crashed on the Jersey City side of the river, Fulop told WABC on Thursday.
The front door was broken down with a heavy sledge, while another flank busted through the back.
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John Semley,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2025
The White House has also thawed previously icy relations with the Kremlin, watched on with concern among NATO countries close to Russia that would rely on U.S. support for their militaries if Moscow did launch attacks on NATO's eastern flank.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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