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.
• Hang on to your comb-over because the theatrical Trump storm is now approaching gale force.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• 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
• The system was also expected to generate gale-force winds along the coast Sunday.
  — Tracy Seipel, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2017
• Half a second after the core of a massive star collapses, a gale of neutrinos streams out, continuing for up to a minute.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
• And that wind may be more than bright: there's some evidence that the mighty gale from a galaxy's central black hole affects the overall state of the galaxy itself.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2012
• The tent was sturdy, Alaskan-made, with triple-stitched seams and supported by heavy aluminum poles strong enough to withstand being buried in snow or the force of a gale.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 18 July 2016
• More than a century of sub-zero winter gales had battered the original structure, causing it to lean slightly toward the west.
  — Joanna Bober, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• The juxtaposition between Mr. West’s unsteadiness and the gale force of the choir was pronounced.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2016
• Hawaii hasn’t seen a tropical storm for 22 years, but beginning today, the islands are facing the gale forces of not one but two storms, with the second at hurricane status.
  — Hannah Weinberger, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2014
• Gales, dressed in a gray jumpsuit with his hands shackled in front of him, stood next to his attorney who debated with Wright and Judge Sherling about the amount of his bond.
  — Prescotte Stokes Iii | [e-mail], AL.com, 15 May 2017
• The Sierra Avalanche Center advised Sunday against travel in the area, warning of intense snowfall rates and gale force winds.
  — Orange County Register, 22 Jan. 2017
• Gales flattened houses, sank ships, and uprooted innumerable urban trees; one storm felled thirty-six trees in St. James’s Park alone.
  — Alison Kinney, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2017
• 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
• Forecasters warned mariners along the Texas coast to be on guard for gale-force winds.
  — CBS News, 17 Jan. 2018
• 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