Example sentences for: sailed

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

  • Indeed, the Earl of Essex’s fleet had sailed right up to the city’s Arab fortifications.

  • The British sailed home from Long Wharf.

  • Over the phone, I got word that Joshua had sailed out from the marina around 5 p.m. the night before, and nobody had seen or heard from him since.

  • When Governor Antonio de Ulloa finally sailed up the Mississippi in 1766, four years after the treaty was signed, a crashing storm erupted, as if an omen for the climate ahead.

  • Christopher Columbus, not yet a sailor of any renown, sailed to Madeira on an assignment to buy sugar cane.


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