Examples from literature

• But it was a losing race, for ten minutes later Steve saw that the fog bank was rolling down upon them and from somewhere to the eastward came the dismal hoot of a steamer feeling her way along. 
• Fog banks in that section are unheard of at nine o'clock in the morning at this season, and we were more than a hundred miles from land, and what could fog and sand be doing there. 
• The fog bank had scattered, and appeared now to be in a dozen smaller masses, floating off in the direction of Mobile Point. 
• The wind was fresh from the south-west, which rolled up the fog banks, and then rolled them away. 
• To the north and north-east the fog banks hung low on the sea.