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moderate breeze
noun
- a wind of 13–18 miles per hour (5.8–8 meters per second).
moderate breeze
noun
- a wind of force four on the Beaufort scale
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Word History and Origins
Origin of moderate breeze1
First recorded in 1795–1805
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Example Sentences
The wind dropped to a moderate breeze, and, through the falling snow, I could make out a "water-sky" to the west.
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Our third race was sailed in a moderate breeze which fell to almost a dead calm at the last.
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Under sail, with a moderate breeze, this ship is said to have sailed about three knots, and to have steamed five knots.
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Even a moderate breeze would raise a sea that could not fail to break over the staging, and which must sweep everything away.
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I expected wind ere long; nor was I disappointed; a moderate breeze springing up from the north-west, about nine o'clock.
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