gale

Converse of object

• howl: Climbing Ben Nevis in a howling gale at night can never be taken for granted!
• blow: In the morning it came on to blow a gale of wind.
• withstand: She was also capable of withstanding gales, which regularly sweep the Mersey Estuary, especially during the winter months.
• rage: Another craft, and brighter, may stem the raging gale, Thy plea of sixty winters, old friend, can never fail.

Converse of subject

batter: Some of its warehouses have walls on the beach which are battered by gales in the winter months.

Adjective modifier

• westerly: Stormy passage to South Georgia The ship finally sailed from Stanley early on Saturday morning straight into a westerly gale.
• easterly: There was an easterly gale blowing with a choppy sea.
• north-easterly: A biting north-easterly gale is not a good enough reason to stay ashore.
• south-westerly: As this high drifted east into the continent, Atlantic fronts crossed Shetland bringing further south-westerly gales and spells of rain.
• north-westerly: Off the west coast of Sardinia a heavy north-westerly gale was encountered, against which was impossible to make headway.
• equinoctial: Very long and very severe were the equinoctial gales that year.

Modifies a noun

• wind: Strong gale force winds throw the lifeboat around like a toy.
• force: Strong gale force winds throw the lifeboat around like a toy.
• warning: There are no gale warnings currently in force.. .
• blow: A gale blows across the fields and I can hardly stand up.

Noun used with modifier

• winter: However, during the winter gales the sand is often scoured away leaving just the rocks behind with very little sand.
• autumn: Any remaining fruits are likely to fall victim to birds, squirrels, autumn gales or all three!

Preposition: of

• laughter: The consequences of the class's choices were shown to gales of laughter from the 7 year olds.
• wind: We set sail in a tremendous gale of wind.

Preposition: with

rain: It was an awful day, force six gale with horizontal rain.