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noun

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

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Origin of sea breeze

First recorded in 1690–1700

Words nearby sea breeze

seaborgium, sea-born, seaborne, sea bread, sea bream, sea breeze, sea buckthorn, Seabury, sea butterfly, sea cabbage, sea calf

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How to use sea breeze in a sentence

Ahhhh… San Diego, the land of crisp and clean salty sea breezes.
Morning Report: San Diegans Exposed to Higher Cancer-Causing Toxins Than Most Californians|Voice of San Diego|November 3, 2021|Voice of San Diego
“This was really a labor of love,” Druckenmiller, who spent many a night wet, muddy, and blasted with freezing sea breeze, says.
The real Jurassic Park may have been in the Arctic|Sara Kiley Watson|June 28, 2021|Popular-Science
My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
Belle & Sebastian Aren’t So Shy Anymore|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
Is Putin Turning to Terrorism in Ukraine?|Anna Nemtsova|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The wreckage lies no more than around 100 feet down in the Java Sea.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.
In the Middle East, the Two-State Solution Is Dead|Dean Obeidallah|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Search teams find dozens of people and jet debris floating in the Java Sea, as the airline confirms the wreckage is from QZ8501.
Wreckage, Bodies of AirAsia Crash Found|Lennox Samuels|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Edna did not reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer day when they sat with faces turned to the sea.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Bits of paper blew aimlessly about, wafted by a little, feverish breeze, which rose in spasms and died away.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
Edna Pontellier, casting her eyes about, had finally kept them at rest upon the sea.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
The countries about the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjoining waters.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin

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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