breeze
a slight wind (usually refreshing)
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,566 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,561 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a slight wind (usually refreshing) also: zephyr, gentle wind, air the breeze was cooled by the lakeas he waited he could feel the air on his neck
- any undertaking that is easy to do also: cinch, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover marketing this product will be no picnic
verb
- blow gently and lightly It breezes most evenings at the shore
- to proceed quickly and easily
breeze in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Agitated by a light breeze, they glistened in the rays of the rising sun.
Piccolissima · Adélaïde de Montgolfier · Chapter 1
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The breeze had veered suddenly and they found themselves again in the smell of carrion.
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story · George Moore · Chapter 1
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Was his ear at fault that brook and breeze Sang in their saddest of minor keys?
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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The man said, ‘I don’t know what is turning those windmills; there is not the slightest breeze blowing.’
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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Mrs. Peter looked in the direction that the Merry Little Breeze was looking, and sure enough there was Peter.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1