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Example sentences for: sail

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Somers set sail almost immediately, headed back to Bermuda.
It was rented out to English and Scottish worshippers in 1607 following the Alteration, and the Pilgrim Fathers worshipped here before they set off on their long journey to the New World (they came to Amsterdam from England before they set sail for the New World).
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.
One can imagine a watery planet with small sail boats, sails, and tillers trimmed to tack forever on a left tack, forever circling the everywhere ocean.
Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.