Example sentences for: sailing

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

  • While we're at it, why not outlaw all words and expressions we've purloined over the years from specialized fields--such as melancholy, hectic, chronic , and allergic (medicine); leading question , time is of the essence (law); by and large, high and dry, slush fund, round robin, aloof (sailing); ego, extrovert, complex, phobia, psyche, depression, trauma, subconscious (same place as empathy); and many more of what Fowler called popularized technicalities.

  • The Star is the oldest sailing ship that is still seaworthy; she makes a celebratory cruise twice each summer.

  • Wealthy visitors to the island enjoy privileged holidays revolving around second homes, boating and sailing.

  • Columbus claimed the island and others in the Bahamas for his royal Spanish patrons, but not finding the gold and other riches he was seeking, he stayed for only two weeks before sailing towards Cuba.

  • Landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park, Mount Royal is a popular refuge from the city bustle, the place for picnics in the summer and tobogganing and skiing in the winter, with the little Beaver Lake (Lac des Castors) for sailing model boats (or skating).


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