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 wings won’t rip off in a gale.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The ball got caught in the gale and then plunked down in the canyon.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Some coastal areas have 25 days of gale-force winds per year.
    — Josh Lew, Treehugger, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Caught in a gale with huge waves that filled the lower holds with water.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • And may there be a gale-force book of his poems in your hand, dear reader.
    — Colin Fleming, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The Great Lakes also see gale-force winds.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Forty-eight straight hours of gale-force winds blew lake water ashore, causing the ice.
    — Alex Chaet, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
  • That's just one tier below one tier below gale-level winds on the scale.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 31 Aug. 2020
  • In a gale, waves broke over the boat, got below the cover and were filling it.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2018
  • There also are storm, gale, and heavy freezing spray warnings.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Forecasters warned mariners along the Texas coast to be on guard for gale-force winds.
    — CBS News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • There will be heavy seas with gale-force winds off the coast, and beach lightning is possible.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Last week, a gale out of the northwest put sea conditions for the opener in doubt.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2018
  • The gales had lifted a neighbor’s kiddie pool into the air over their street.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Austin Seibert made a pair of fourth-quarter field goals into the gale.
    — John Shinn Diehards, ajc, 19 Nov. 2017
  • High waves and powerful gales range across those waters even in the summer months.
    — Greg Noone, Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The gale force winds kept the smoke away and visibility clear.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
  • Jones is a gale force wind on the show, driving it forward with her confidence and cool.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • This stirred up southbound, high-speed gales that promoted the advance of the flames.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Fire crews were quickly overwhelmed as the fire spread due to a fierce winter gale passing through the town.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, but a chilly gale blasted up from the Southern Ocean.
    — Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
  • The mistakes leading to the grounding did not begin with the gale that morning.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021

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