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noun

a thermally produced wind blowing from a cool ocean surface onto adjoining warm land.

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Compare lake breeze, land breeze.

Origin of sea breeze

First recorded in 1690–1700

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How to use sea breeze in a sentence

For Sochi, perhaps owing to the sea breeze—and Tinder as well—the number is 100,000 for about 3000 athletes.
Does Sex Really Distract Olympians?|Kent Sepkowitz|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eric was with a little knot of his chief friends, enjoying the sea-breeze as they sat on the grass.
Eric, or Little by Little|Frederic W. Farrar
A caressing warmth was in the air, and a sea-breeze stirred the tops of the lime branches.
The Marne|Edith Wharton
The sun was powerful enough to draw the scent from the pinewoods, and the sea-breeze swept it up towards the mountains.
The Isle of Unrest|Henry Seton Merriman

The sea breeze has blown the sand into heaps, and even on these dry, thirsty hillocks we see many tufts of grass.
On the Seashore|R. Cadwallader Smith
In very hot days the sea breeze often veersround to the North and blows a gale.
Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land|William Charles Wentworth

British Dictionary definitions for sea breeze

sea breeze

noun

a wind blowing from the sea to the land, esp during the day when the land surface is warmer

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Cultural definitions for sea breeze

sea breeze

The breeze that blows from the sea toward the land during the day, as air rising over the warmer land is replaced by cooler air from above the sea. (Compare land breeze.)

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