Example sentences for: gale

How can you use “gale” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is odd to note that Idioms and Phrases Index (Gale Research Company, 1983), a compendious work indexing some 250,000 idioms and phrases, is missing from the rather eclectic Bibliography (where Logan Pearsall Smith, quoted at the beginning of the book, merits no mention either).

  • The nightingale does not have a directly imitative name, although the final- gale is related to yell , which is undoubtedly echoic.

  • Those who specialize in this area prefer to subsume them all under the general rubric, initialism , a term quoted by the OED from the 1890s in Notes and Queries, but one that did not become current, I believe, till Gale Research Company published Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary , in 1965.

  • It was built by G. W. Gale Ferris, a mechanical engineer of Galesburg, Ill., for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

  • Gale, William. "


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