(1) it was blowing a gale(2) Trying to measure insulin in a small yacht in a gale shows just how diabetes brings its excitements and inconveniences.(3) When I returned to the car and unloaded my bags, I found a single car key on a ring lying by the back right tire. I was tired, R. had been cranky, and the wind was blowing a gale .(4) She rocked from side to side, like a ship in a gale .(5) It is true, though, that a few times each winter the harbor is hit by a southeasterly gale , its impact intensified by the fact that the harbor's open mouth faces in that direction.(6) It was a force nine gale , a tad below a hurricane, and Rogue Wave was in a grand and powerful waltz.(7) Six were washed ashore in a gale and pieces are still visible on very low spring tides.(8) More significantly, I ceased to notice the rain, the sleet and the force-10 gale .(9) In November 2000 they set off for a five-day training run and found themselves crewing the boat into the teeth of a force eight south-westerly gale .(10) The Aran Islands lifeboat had broken loose from its mooring in a gale at the beginning of November.(11) At the height of the gale , the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed.(12) At last he came near enough to where he was directly above it, and fighting against a hurricane-like gale to land.(13) They are winds that put the mind in tumult, sweeping us along like ships in a gale , and as storms disturb the harmony of nature, passions are discordant and jangling.(14) The wind was getting stronger, blowing up a real gale .(15) It's been a roisterous time, filled with every strength and variety of wind from a ragamuffin breeze right through to a force eight gale , whipping in from the sea and over the moors.(16) it was almost blowing a gale
