Example sentences for: sailed

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

  • (Dole included Hutchison's proposal in the economic package he introduced after the minimum-wage bill had sailed through Congress on its way to a sure presidential signature.)

  • NASA's scientists have a better understanding of what they are doing in exploring Mars than … Columbus had when he sailed westwards to find the East Indies and stumbled on to the Americas.

  • A more serious claim is made for the Vikings, who seem to have sailed to the coast from Greenland around the year 1000.

  • On a dark night in mid-August 1775, several boats sailed into the dark harbor of Tobacco Bay near Fort St. Catherine and, in a daring and dangerous raid, stole 100 kegs of gunpowder from the main ordnance store.

  • Out of adversity came good fortune, and the settlers soon built two new ships and sailed from Bermuda to complete their original goal of reaching Jamestown.


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