"stiff" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Barnegat herself had to try to recover her drifting men, since the stiff gale precluded the lowering of a boat.
- I can stand here and light my pipe in the stiffest gale, without any trouble.
- He stood by habit as though he were leaning into a stiff gale.
- The Leda-class stood to their canvas well and liked a stiff gale, but were prone to excessive pitching in very heavy seas.
- Much to Herbert's delight, they predicted a stiff gale, and probably a storm.
- At noon the wind had freshened into a two-reef breeze, and by night into a stiff gale, accompanied with a tremendously heavy swell.
- The image shimmered, the wall's deformations undergoing constant and rapid change, fluttering and rippling like a flag in a stiff gale.
- The stiff gale off the mountain today was Meg Mallon.
- Instead, like a tightrope walker facing a stiff gale, Chrysler's ability to keep moving forward is being sorely tested.
- Forty miles per hour would be a stiff gale on Earth, Jamie knew.
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