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How to use lee in a sentence

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Canberra moved to the lee side of Christmas Island until the possible danger had passed.
We anchor alone in the lee of the cay, pile into the inflatable dinghy, don our masks and fins, and spend the next hour swimming with dolphins.
A big pufferfish lurked in there and I took its portrait before making my way up to the superstructure, still in the lee of the current.
The area can be quite windy at times in summer, but there is rarely a time when a lee shore is not available.
At the summit of Cairn Gorm, a bitter northerly wind with 40 mph gusts drove us into the lee of a frosted weather station.
In addition, foehn winds, warm dry winds coming off the lee slopes of a mountain range, heated the basin.
Katherine caught a few stray pellets from the shotgun before securing her position in the lee of a large oak.
The majority of these flutes commence in the lee of Carboniferous and Permian boulders, indicative of a local subglacial origin.
Some of the crew tried to get ashore in Carley floats but were blown past the island, drifted miles to a lee shore and where found by Icelanders.
The first part of the journey was quite bumpy, close to the lee shore the water was quite calm.
They are much more likely to be found tucked into the lee of the wreck, only spreading out at slack water and on neap tides.
I would leave early in the morning when the water was very calm in the lee of Maui, just go out look for whales surfacing and blowing.
We bimbled up the coast into the lee of some big cliffs that would shelter us, and there we stayed put for the rest of the day.
I could see white caps in the channel, it was time to seek shelter on the lee shore.
When I asked where the head was, a crewmember thumbed at the lee side of the boat.
You can normally tell the lee side from the windward side by looking for cornices.
The thermals are strong enough to overcome the north winds and it is easy to climb up on the lee sides of the peaks and ridges.
As the sun came up, the other single-anchored vessel was sighted at the far side of the bay dragging anchor towards the lee shore.
The party stopped for a little while to eat lunch on the lee side of a large rock.
If possible a pilot ladder and gangway net should be placed over the lee side with manropes.
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Sewall guarded the German, while Roosevelt and Dow, crouching under the lee of a cutbank, prepared to greet the others.
With this arrangement the leeboard could be raised and lowered and also shifted to the lee side on each tack.
The downwind portion of the dune, the lee slope, is commonly a 35 steep avalanche slope referred to as a slipface.
Julius, who was mate, was roosting on the lee rail amid-ships, helping him swear.
Two miles off the lee end of Upolu is the low-lying island of Manono, which is, however, enclosed in the Upolu barrier reef.
We stopped under the lee of the lobster-outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure.
An old man with a gray beard sat on a ditty box at the lee rail, sewing a pair of breeches.
On the second night she shifted her ballast into the lee bow, and by that time we had been blown off somewhere on the dogger Bank.
Finally, when no longer able to force the dogs through the blinding drift we sought the lee of an unlifted block of ice.
Directly afterwards the French frigate ran up on our larboard and lee quarter, and yawing rapidly, fired into us.
The dead are the defence of the living, and we are under the lee of deadman's Berg.
They came about in mid-channel and lay some hours with lowered sail in the lee of a cliffy island.
We began to think of halting for the night and bivouacking under the lee of some thicket.
Let us suppose that you are caught on a lee shore, and for some reason cannot claw off.
He got a huge garlicky kebab and ate it in the lee of a frozen ATM shelter, wolfing it without tasting it.
This occurred under the lee of a cliff, so we went in search with wrecking car the next day.
Even though he was unable to stand, he would crawl to the lee of a boulder or copse of trees and let the snow cover him.
We had sea room, and no lee shore to fear, and the ship was stanch, and no sailor can ask for more than that.
I don't say so to many, haven't said it to any one but you, but it looks to me as if I were on a lee shore.
She ran close under the lee of the galiot, just far enough off to clear her masts.
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