leeward

How To Use leeward In A Sentence

• But this is too long a falling to 'leeward' of our story, as the sailors would call it; so we will come right back into the wind again. Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
• The other way to take in the amazing variety of underwater sites that line the leeward side of Bonaire is by shore diving.
• I ran forward and had the downhaul of the flying jib all in and fast as we slipped by the boat a hundred feet to leeward. Chapter 25
• on the leeward side of the island
• Start with helms staggered on the beach by skill factor (as decided by the fleet captain) from windward to leeward.
• Shortly after leaving our anchorage we passed close to leeward of a long rakish-looking lateener, on board which, as ill-luck would have it, an anchor-watch was being kept. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
• Sand grains are blown up the windward side of the heap and over the crest until the leeward side of the dune is so steep that it slumps under its own weight.
• Every now and then my ears would pop with the pressure, despite us having all our windows on the leeward side of the house open.
• I have stated that there was a reef to leeward: it should rather be called a shoal, since it was a sort of muddy sand-bank formed by the current of the river, and running diagonally into the sea for a long distance -- a sort of low peninsula. Ran Away to Sea
• The guny swoops for it and misses, and the flying - fish, gaining its altitude by rising, kite-like, against the wind, turns in a half-circle and skims off to leeward, gliding on the bosom of the wind. Chapter 9