Crossword-Solution: LEEWAY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Leeway | n. | The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
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greedy person
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Sentences with LEEWAY (5)
The terms `tolerance' and {slop} are also used, though these usually indicate a one-sided leeway, such as a buffer that is made larger than necessary because one isn't sure exactly how large it needs to be, and it is better to waste a little space than to lose completely for not having enough.
And across these shimmering estuaries of impulse his will, a lost and naked athlete, was painfully attempting to swim, but making much leeway and already almost resigned to being carried out to sea.
But there can be no doubt the wind changed right round into the east, and that we were carried far down the Channel without any suspicion of the immense leeway we were making.
GERMANY'S AERIAL DREADNOUGHT FLEET Although Germany, as compared with France, was relatively slow to recognise the immense possibilities of aircraft, particularly dirigibles, in the military sense, once the Zeppelin had received the well-wishes of the Emperor William, Teuton activities were so pronounced as to enable the leeway to be made up within a very short while.
The seventh some sail was got on her, but she was an unwieldy vessel at the best, and we made little but leeway.
Quotes with LEEWAY (3)
Terror is an artery. Running unfailing channels of bloodied thoroughfares by dint of the wilds beyond our knowing. Fluctuations and murmurs are audible within the splintered leeway of our preserve as a consequence of interstices modeled in such brutality. This appended artery offers no direction; idle and at times desultory. Bloodstained tracks and avenues guide casualties. Terror, like death, is not complicated, nor is it simple. It is but routine — natural. To call it other…
The wind comes across the plains not howling but singing. It's the difference between this wind and its big-city cousins: the full-throated wind of the plains has leeway to seek out the hidden registers of its voice. Where immigrant farmers planted windbreaks a hundred and fifty years ago. it keens in protest; where the young corn shoots up, it whispers as it passes, crossing field after field in its own time, following eastward trends but in no hurry to find open water. You …
I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 74 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).