Sailing in a sentence as a noun

It's relatively smooth sailing once the ice is broken.

They're sailing uncharted waters and giving us all a lot of good research, and all for free.

“In the last 20 years,” Clark noted, the size of ships rapidly increased and steam ships replaced sailing vessels.

If you ask for what you want and get it prior to saying "Or else I quit" it's much smoother sailing for everyone.

Funny tht right around the time he was arrested, Lulzsec declared they were done and sailing off in their Lulzboat.

But coastal sailing, docking, berthing, towing, and other complex navigation functions are pretty complex operations.

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.

The scientific method and the community of science that surrounds it is truly a powerful machine - able to take the worst aspects of human nature, sailing atop a river of garbage specked with half-wrong answers, and spin that mix into the gold of technology.

Sailing definitions

noun

the work of a sailor

See also: seafaring navigation

noun

riding in a sailboat

noun

the departure of a vessel from a port

noun

the activity of flying a glider

See also: glide gliding sailplaning soaring