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Example sentences for "bad weather"

  • The steward was a saucy black; and, on one occasion, in bad weather, he neglected to give me anything warm for breakfast.

  • He has good quarters below; and if he serve in a ship as large as a frigate, he has a cover over his head, half the time, at least, in bad weather.

  • I feared he would give up Mull and Icolmkill, for he said something of his apprehensions of being detained by bad weather in going to Mull and Iona.

  • Bad weather and he, at the same time, would be too much.

  • We were now rather critically placed for the evening was closing in with every appearance of bad weather, and we were obliged to anchor in a very exposed situation without any protection either from the wind or sea.

  • After sunset the clouds began to collect in the South-East and threatened the approach of bad weather; but in our situation the anchor, although we had but one, was our best security.

  • The guide informed him that the experience of ages enabled the inhabitants to foresee good or bad weather, and that they were seldom deceived.

  • Most of the reports which he had received previous to his entrance had concurred in describing the dissatisfaction of the troops, who for some time had had to contend with bad roads, bad weather, and all aorta of privations.

  • From this time he visited them daily in spite of sickness or bad weather, nor did his anxiety diminish until it was discovered that a coppery cement, with which the bottom of the basin was plastered, had poisoned the water.

  • But battles, bad weather, and even want, had so reduced the French force that it was absolutely necessary our troops should repose when their enterprises could lead to no results.

  • The Indians assemble in these buildings only in bad weather, or at night, and then a fire kindled in the middle of the house, gives light.

  • A great part of the deck was covered by an awning, so that passengers could enjoy the fresh air at the same time that they were protected from the sun or bad weather.

  • In bad weather, the wash is dried by steam.

  • His first few attempts that season were frustrated by bad weather, and so persistently did the rain continue to fall that for a couple of weeks no high ascents could be thought of.

  • To add to their difficulties, bad weather came on, with snow and intense cold.

  • In the meantime, when nothing remained of the brig but a useless hulk, bad weather came on, which soon finished her.

  • At any rate in the event of bad weather, she will not be exposed here as she would be at the mouth of the Mercy.

  • Does the barometer show a sudden change of wind as well as the coming on of bad weather?

  • We took up our abode at Tungu in a wooden but under the great rock, where we were detained for several days by bad weather.

  • Climbers are of various constitutions, there are mountains and mountains, and divers kinds of bad weather.

  • It would have been pleasant to have united our parties, but we had an appointment to keep at St. Moritz, and could not venture to risk a detention by bad weather on the wrong side of the chain.

  • During our watches below we overhauled our clothes, and made and mended everything for bad weather.

  • There was one difficulty, however, which nothing that we could do would remedy; and that was the leaking of the forecastle, which made it very uncomfortable in bad weather, and rendered half of the berths tenantless.

  • They covered it with Oahu mats, for a carpet; stopped up the vent-hole in bad weather, and made it their head-quarters.

  • And there being, in our watch, but three of us who lived forward, we generally had a dry berth apiece in bad weather.

  • In this state of things the writer felt particularly desirous to get the thirteenth course finished, that the building might be in a more secure state in the event of bad weather.

  • To add to this evil, the co-boose or cooking- place being upon deck, it would not have been possible to have cooked for so large a company in the event of bad weather.

  • It was his regular practice to assert that he was sailing with a squadron of the queen's ships, and had been driven into harbour by bad weather or the want of stores.

  • Rupert had been driven on to the coast of Sicily by bad weather, before he could make the coast of France.

  • He excused himself for sailing into this harbour by his customary fiction, alleging that his ships had been injured by bad weather, and must be refitted before he could venture to return to Europe.

  • It was driven back by bad weather, but discovered enough to show that Philip's threats were not serious.

  • The one special danger of Mont Blanc is bad weather.

  • Such things may happen in the finest weather, when proper precautions are neglected; but in bad weather it is simple madness to proceed.

  • Another serious Alpine danger is the danger of bad weather; and bad weather, as Leslie Stephen has pointed out, may make the Righi at one time as dangerous as the Matterhorn at another.

  • There is the danger of bad weather, and there is the danger of the falling stone.

  • Certainly we stand by it more sternly in bad weather.

  • Ports placed in the cabin windows in bad weather.

  • This is convenient in setting them up in bad weather, but does not give so much spread as when set up in the channels, and presents a more complicated surface to the eye.

  • In fine weather, he is not necessarily much on deck, but should be ready at all times, especially in bad weather, to be up at a moment's notice.

  • A stump topgallant mast has no cross-trees, or means for setting a mast above it, and is carried only in bad weather.

  • If a long course of bad weather is anticipated, as in doubling the southern capes, or crossing the Atlantic in winter, reef-tackles are rove for the courses.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bad weather" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bad luck; bad man; bad weather; bade adieu; bade farewell; bade good; bade him; bade them; badly frightened; being careful; come around; cruel death; fine blue; fire broke; human intellect; lower order; miles distant; national income; neither could; offering made; passive obedience; policy towards; right good; thousand pounds; will seek; would pass