Example sentences for: masts

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

  • A number of large hotels line the Lucayan Beach, their massive façades softened by the hundreds of masts of the yachts moored on the inlet.

  • To the east is Platja de Palma, a long line of excellent sandy beaches that have been defaced by a sad stretch of concrete from Ca’n Pastilla to S’Arenal; to the west is the elegant seaside promenade, Passeig Marítim, of modern Palma, where luxury hotels look out over a forest of masts in the yacht harbor.

  • Listen to the stories of heroic deeds in the bars and enjoy the wonderful views of masts filling the skies.

  • Pei Bank of China Tower, not beloved by the people of Hong Kong — its triangular prisms and sharp angles violate the principles of feng shui (see box, page 68) and its radio masts stick up like an insect’s antennae.

  • Most readers of VERBATIM would, I am sure, have been as intrigued as I was to discover that a yeoman is “an English landowner often having municipal functions”; that in tennis a ball is net “when it touches the top of the summit [ sic ] of the net separating the two sides”; that a starting block has “compartments in which race-horses are put before the off so they can all leave simultaneously”; and that brick is the English for “a sailing-ship with two masts” --taking part, maybe, in a lofing match: “in a sailing-boat regatta, the action of one of the participants consisting in an attempt to bring one of his rivals head to the wind.”


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