Example sentences for: sail

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

  • If you don’t sail yourself, this is a great way to see Bermuda from the water, including the many small islands lying just off Hamilton Harbour and St. George’s Harbour.

  • Small colorful boats with piles of yellow nets are waiting to set sail for the next day’s catch.

  • The Boat Loft houses a collection reflecting Bermuda’s innovative local designs, including a fully rigged, gleamingly polished “fitted dinghy,” famed for the size of its enormous sail.

  • Another metal, tin—for which the Phoenicians used to sail as far from Tyre and Sidon to the mines on the coast of Cornwall nearly three millennia ago—bears a Latin symbol short for another metallic substance: Sn, for stannum , a Roman-era amalgam of silver and lead.

  • South of the baths begins the Old Appian Way (Via Appia Antica), built in 312 b.c. for the Roman legions who marched to coastal Brindisi to set sail for the Levant and North Africa.


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