leeward

How To Use leeward In A Sentence

• For them there was no shelter from the cold, no shrewd crawling to leeward in snug nooks. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
• The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
• Communities on the coral atolls are usually concentrated along the leeward shoreline of lagoons.
• I have the honour to inform you that the Honourable Company's steamer ‘Nemesis,’ under my command, was obliged to part company with the fleet, being light, and consequently very leewardly.
• We camped on the leeward side of the mountain.
• Finding we could not weather the reef, and that _it was too late had it been in our power to give any assistance_; and still fearing that we might be embayed or entangled by the supposed chain or patches; all therefore that remained for us to do was either by dint of carrying sail to weather the reef to the southward, (meaning the Cato's Bank,) or, if failing in that, to push to leeward and endeavour to find a passage through the _patches of reef_ to the northward. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
• Short, shallow fetches prevent major whitecaps on small bodies of water, and a leeward shoreline always is within reach.
• It is true that even the great Dr. Johnson defined the word pastern as 'the knee of an horse,' an anatomical inexactitude which would produce on an ostler the same kind of paralytic shock that a sailor might experience on finding in the same famous work leeward and windward described in identical terms as 'toward the wind.' On Dictionaries
• Both the Leeward and Windward Islands are more challenging due to the open ocean sailing and distances between islands. Susan Fogwell: Bareboat Sailing Options In The Caribbean
• Kailua-Kona, which means "leeward" in Hawaiian, is on the sunny west coast of Hawaii's Big Luxist