twenty-knot

"It may look like the Farallones to you, but to me it looks like a battleship coming right in the Gate with a bone in its teeth at a twenty-knot clip."

CHAPTER XXVIII 2010

McGonagle now commanded the U.S.S. Kilauea, a new twenty-knot ammunition ship built by General Dynamics in a Massachusetts shipyard.

The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

A twenty-knot wind blew the tops off the whitecaps and rained them downwind, churning blooms of azure out of the dark water.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

A twenty-knot wind blew the tops off the whitecaps and rained them downwind, churning blooms of azure out of the dark water.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

About a twenty-knot breeze had whipped up a stiff chop on the bay, making the Del Norte rock at her mooring.

The 6th Target Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

Ten-foot swells and a twenty-knot wind rocked us back and forth for the six-hour journey from Penang.

The Macphersons: Week 42: The Sumatra Story 2007

A woman who could sail alone in a twenty-knot gale or muck out a sheep pen without flinching.

Lauren Waverly, Shannon 1999

Marching across the ocean in sets of seven, each breaker was flecked with white and capped with a thin froth of foam, the twenty-knot wind still kicking up whitecaps.

Arctic Fire Douglass, Keith 1997

The helicopter took off and headed north, helped by the twenty-knot wind blowing down the valley.

Clear and Present Danger Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1989

The twenty-knot surface wind and sheets of falling rain made noise that interfered with sonar performance-but that included their own sonar, and sonar was their only safe means for getting information.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986