Example sentences for: helm

How can you use “helm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As it is, the book is greatly bulked up: its wide hanging indentions, large type, ragged-right setting, open spaces make for an attractive package; the illustrations are pretty and, in some cases (various sails), useful, but many of them are gratuitous and purely decorative ( helm, scrimshaw , five pages of different rigs).

  • Miramax's success has attracted buyers and spawned imitators: Disney bought Miramax for an estimated $60 million in 1993 and kept the Weinsteins at the helm under a sweet contract.

  • At its helm was the Norman baron, Jean de Béthencourt, under service to Henry III, king of Castile.

  • Naumann puts it, "This flaw may be that we believe that no responsible man who is at the helm of a country like Yugoslavia can wish to run the risk that his entire country will be bombed into rubble before he gives up."

  • Bin Ladin's assumption of the helm of al Qaeda was evidence of his growing self-confidence and ambition.


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