18 example sentences using sail.
Sail used in a sentence
Sail in a sentence as a noun
You have 2 sailors - one weak, the other great.
What's more important - the person who captures, or the gust that fills his sail?
Any boat /ship will act as a sail, but the bigger you get the harder it is to control.
I have not done it yet, but I've sailed quite a bit and someday I want to start crossing oceans.
For some, it means sacking every town and metaphoric sail away with all the gold.
This sentiment is a bit like saying "sailors don't sail because they have somewhere to go.
She was reportedly last seen on the roof of \n the shed at Pier 27, watching her ship sail out of Quebec \n City.
Thunderstorms were rolling in, we saw them, we thought we could keep the sails up about 2 minutes longer than we should have.
"It may be true if you're on a lake or in a bay, know the area well, and your intention is to just go and flex your sailing muscles.
Sail in a sentence as a verb
Our sails were dragging us down and the wind was up like crazy and the rain rolled in to the point where we no longer could see our competitors who were 75 feet away.
If you do, you will sail easily to Series A, on your way to creating an rather large business which may or may not resemble the one you are presently running.
I've done this several times and it always seems to lead to the hairest situations because you are forced by the schedule to sail even if the weather doesn't cooperate.
Flying over the area would likely be more a reasonable optionUnless you actually wanted to sail around the south pacific for a month and be able to call it "work"
This means that you cannot make any conclusions about, say, overall traffic levels or anything of that sort, this is like looking at sail traffic through a straw, this is not in any sense a complete survey.
I have applied for a LOT of jobs in the last 2 years and one of two things happens: They don't talk to me, or they do, and I sail past the preliminary interviews only to get rejected after the background check.
The Clipper ships, the most advanced sailing vessels operated commercially, could rival the speed of coal-powered steamships of their time, and even of modern oil-powered cargo ships when "slow-steaming" rules are applied.
I crawled up to the bow and cut down one of the sails and hand over handed the thing into the boat, and when we finally got it all sorted out and the rain cut back, we were still sailing at full speed and realized we were in the middle of a reef.
Pointing out that correlation does not equal causation is the very first most obvious criticism to make of a finding, but don't sail in with that criticism until you've made sure that causation wasn't actually suggested by legitimate research.
Sail definitions
a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
an ocean trip taken for pleasure
See also: cruise
any structure that resembles a sail
traverse or travel on (a body of water); "We sailed the Atlantic"; "He sailed the Pacific all alone"
move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky"
See also: sweep
travel on water propelled by wind; "I love sailing, especially on the open sea"; "the ship sails on"