What's the difference between breeze and breezy?

Breeze


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Breeze fly
  • (n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
  • (n.) An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
  • (n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
  • (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
  • (v. i.) To blow gently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
  • (2) He "jumped without hesitation", said official sources quoted in the Daily Breeze.
  • (3) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
  • (4) The only sound was the breeze whispering to the grass: splendour in solitude.
  • (5) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
  • (6) As the heat of a desert sunrise bears down on the breeze-block walls of the Visión En Acción asylum, casualties and refugees from the most dangerous city in the world begin another day.
  • (7) In Zanzibar she lived in a modest breeze-block house with some of her "grandchildren" and their pigeons.
  • (8) But here, in our PS4 demo, everything is rendered in exquisite detail with real-time sunlight pouring in over the undulating mountains, reflecting over grasslands that sway in the breeze.
  • (9) The notion drifted away on the Istanbul breeze in the second-half, particularly after he had been forced to substitute Ramsey and Mathieu Flamini at half-time.
  • (10) A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop.
  • (11) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
  • (12) Crowley, adds Breeze, “was many things and excelled at most: a record-setting mountaineer, a competition-level chess player, the best metrical poet of his generation in the estimation of some, a literary critic of international reputation, an innovative editor and book designer, a pioneer in the use of entheogens, and a lion of sexual liberation – he was above all a lover, of men, women, gods, goddesses and himself”.
  • (13) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
  • (14) One clip shows Yeates breezing into the shop, allowing the door to swing closed behind her.
  • (15) "I have felt like St Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us many days of sunshine and gentle breeze, days in which the catch has been abundant; [then] there have been times when the seas were rough and the wind against us … and the Lord seemed to be sleeping," he said.
  • (16) There is an abundance of wildlife here in summer, holly blue butterflies flutter on the breeze and buzzards circle high overhead.
  • (17) The occurrence of high concentrations of a PCB (Aroclor 1254) in the Pensacola estuary prompted field and laboratory studies by the Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory (EPA).
  • (18) The architecture of the city acts as a giant cooling system that funnels Atlantic breezes through shaded streets in a triumph of civil engineering.
  • (19) What, after all, do a majority of votes matter, when your opponent has described you to history as a "mangy maggot", " the old desiccated coconut ", "araldited to the seat" and a "dead carcass, swinging in the breeze"?
  • (20) This created a single new company with a different name, Solar Breeze (Consolidated) Limited.

Breezy


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy.
  • (a.) Fresh; brisk; full of life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As day dawned, first dark and thundery, later bright but still very breezy, locals and visitors gazed out as waves continued to pound the shore and reshape the famous beach.
  • (2) This is at one with his breezy good-heartedness, and a sign of the couple's closeness.
  • (3) King swept into the Commons as part of the landslide Labour intake of 1997, still in her 20s, only the second black female MP after Diane Abbott, combining a breezy, open personality with a deep interest in housing and genocide prevention.
  • (4) Breezy, but winds generally lighter than on Monday too.
  • (5) Wednesday is predicted to be "bright and breezy" for most places, according to the Met Office.
  • (6) This breezy, rather English, approach to her art extends to A Kind Man .
  • (7) Backed by a breezy 2km-long promenade, the calm water is perfect for swimming, while sunken galleons are a huge draw for scuba divers.
  • (8) He bounces into the room unaccompanied, a little stiff in the lower back perhaps, but otherwise breezy and lithe.
  • (9) His first novel, Five Point Someone , adopted a breezy, ironic tone to explore the lives of the exam-oppressed students who cram to get into the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi and then rebel against the stultifying atmosphere of academic competition.
  • (10) With an election looming, the chancellor was breezy and upbeat.
  • (11) There's no sign, just an open doorway and a flight of stairs; so in you go, and carry on upwards, past the main salon to the breezy top floor.
  • (12) Roof-top terraces Nothing beats a breezy roof terrace and a gin and tonic after a day of culture, and there are plenty of places to imbibe high above the heat of the city.
  • (13) It's not something that has been done before: even Whedon opted for a breezy romp which used humour to paper over the preposterous logic cracks in his bombastic superhero ensemble.
  • (14) It would also be a pity if the film-makers plumped for a rumoured “dark” take on what has always been a pretty bright and breezy superhero ensemble.
  • (15) But these two are positively breezy in comparison to the anguished voices on the online messageboards.
  • (16) At the peninsula's tip is Breezy Point, the sight of the devastating fire Monday night and Tuesday that claimed at least 80 homes.
  • (17) Thomas Hitzlsperger announces he is gay in newspaper interview Read more The Mirror’s headline was designed to shock, yet fell flat; pricked hours later by a breezy tweet from Manchester United’s Luke Shaw denying his involvement.
  • (18) The apartments – in whitewashed houses with green shutters and terracotta roofs – sleep between two and six people, and are kitted out in a breezy, contemporary style and come with a private courtyard.
  • (19) After nine years without a trophy Arsène Wenger now has two in two games as a breezy performance marked by three excellent goals secured a Community Shield victory against a weakened Manchester City.
  • (20) "Breezy conditions with rain or heavy showers should gradually clear eastwards during Sunday, with a brief drier and brighter period likely for some later on Sunday and early Monday," the forecast continued.