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Example sentences for "gentle breeze"

  • The wind still continued westerly, a gentle breeze, the weather rather dull and cloudy, and the air sharp and dry.

  • We continued to run all night with a gentle breeze at N.

  • We then made sail for the east, with a gentle breeze northerly, attended with snow and sleet, which froze to the rigging as it fell.

  • At seven o'clock the calm was succeeded by a gentle breeze from N.

  • The calm continued till noon the next day, when it was succeeded by a gentle breeze from S.

  • There was a gentle breeze, and a swish and stir and hum rose and fell above the head of Edward Pierson, coming back from his lonely ramble over Tintern Abbey.

  • There was a gentle breeze, drifting the clouds across the sun; lizards darted out over the walls, looked at her, and whisked away.

  • At first a Gentle breeze, but afterwards freshned upon us.

  • Hazey with frequent Showers of Rain all the Fore and Middle part; latter, Clear weather with a Gentle breeze of wind.

  • A Gentle Breeze, with some few showers of rain.

  • In the afternoon, we had a gentle breeze at S.

  • In the afternoon we had a fresh breeze at west, and during the night variable light airs and calms: In the morning a gentle breeze sprung up between the N.

  • It being no longer safe to sail before the wind, as we were to expect soon to fall in with ice, I therefore hauled to the east, having a gentle breeze at N.

  • On the 30th at day-break, stretched out for Amattafoa, with a gentle breeze at W.

  • Then a gentle breeze sprang up from the south.

  • As soon as these were slung on board, the anchor was got up, and the Misericordia, under a gentle breeze, stole out to sea.

  • The tide had just turned to run out, there was a gentle breeze blowing, and as the two jibs were run up the Creole began to steal through the water.

  • On the 25th, about noon, we weighed anchor, and made sail for the Downs through the Queen's Channel, with a gentle breeze at N.

  • We weighed again at eight in the evening, and stood out of the sound, with a gentle breeze at N.

  • It was a very dark night, with a gentle breeze blowing in towards Smyrna, and as the Orphan straightened himself he saw the glare of the search-lights over the mine-field, and that unpleasant sensation in his stomach would come back.

  • A grand day it was, the sun shining out of an almost cloudless sky, the sea bluer than the sky, and ruffled pleasantly by a gentle breeze.

  • Here and there a star already twinkled in the heavens, and a few rosy clouds, on which the sun's rays rested lingeringly, floated away eastwards before a gentle breeze, that rustled among the tall palm trees.

  • The wind, which had been quite fresh when they started, had now subsided to a gentle breeze; but as the country was more open than on the Big River, as it was called, they still moved along at the rate of three or four miles an hour.

  • The wind had subsided to a gentle breeze, and the Isabel moved slowly along over the rolling waves.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentle breeze" 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:
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