SAIL in a Sentence
Learn SAIL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
274 example sentences for SAIL, such as:
1. We set sail at high tide.
2. Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
3. His ambition is to sail round the world.
4. As the wind blows, you must set your sail.
5. The ship is under sail, making toward the land.
2. Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
3. His ambition is to sail round the world.
4. As the wind blows, you must set your sail.
5. The ship is under sail, making toward the land.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SAIL
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sail
n. a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
v. travel on water propelled by wind
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 But afterwards, when the old stalwarts were pumphandling everybody at the door and calling 'em 'Brother' and 'Sister,' they let me sail right by with nary a clinch.'
2 I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
3 For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me.
4 He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but he didn't make much headway, I thought.
5 'We sail with the next coming tide,' at last he slowly answered, still intently eyeing him.
6 For it is particularly written, shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this history, 'that he paid the fare thereof' ere the craft did sail.
7 For the nonce, however, he proposed to sail about, and sow his wild oats in all four oceans.
8 Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port for an adventurous whaleman to embark from.
9 Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet river.
10 And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
11 But it seems they always give very long notice in these cases, and the ship did not sail for several days.
12 At last it was given out that some time next day the ship would certainly sail.
13 In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel's leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.
14 I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail.
15 From hand to hand, the buckets went in the deepest silence, only broken by the occasional flap of a sail, and the steady hum of the unceasingly advancing keel.
Example Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1 As the wind blows, you must set your sail.
2 The ship is under sail, making toward the land.
3 Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
4 She is the first woman who navigates a sail crossing the English Channel.
5 His ambition is to sail round the world.
6 If we sail in a southeastward direction we'll reach land.
7 Every life is a boat, the dream is the boat sail.
8 We set sail at high tide.
9 Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.
10 We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.
11 We can never promise to sail anywhere in particular, because the weather might militate against it.
12 The captain charted this area out and it's quite safe to sail in it.
13 The sail of the little boat swung crazily from one side to the other.
14 With favorable weather conditions, it was an auspicious moment to set sail.
15 Tom dreamed of owning an ocean-going yacht but had to settle for a skiff he could sail in the bay.