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sea breeze

noun

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

sea breeze

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

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 .)

First recorded in 1690–1700

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Ahhhh… San Diego, the land of crisp and clean salty sea breezes.

“This was really a labor of love,” Druckenmiller, who spent many a night wet, muddy, and blasted with freezing sea breeze, says.

For Sochi, perhaps owing to the sea breeze—and Tinder as well—the number is 100,000 for about 3000 athletes.

Eric was with a little knot of his chief friends, enjoying the sea-breeze as they sat on the grass.

A caressing warmth was in the air, and a sea-breeze stirred the tops of the lime branches.

The sun was powerful enough to draw the scent from the pinewoods, and the sea-breeze swept it up towards the mountains.

The sea breeze has blown the sand into heaps, and even on these dry, thirsty hillocks we see many tufts of grass.

In very hot days the sea breeze often veersround to the North and blows a gale.

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