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Example sentences for: sails

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

But the statue misses, and the ball sails over the Atlantic, past a curious Big Ben and the Arc de Triomphe.
This takes some of the wind out of the sails of John Cabot, the Venetian navigator who claimed Canada’s eastern seaboard for England’s Henry VII in 1497.
Then--while still gunning the motorcycle down a logging road--he produces a parachute from out of nowhere and straps it on just as the bike sails out over the deepest gorge in the world.
Their white sails make a beautiful sight, especially at sunset.
Such words as limicole, catharping, xebec, siriasis -- as well as boxing the compass, the sails of a full rigged ship, chains, deadeyes, shrouds, halyards, and stays, are all well explained in this book, including pictures of how a square--rigged warship had its sails raised, lowered, and tacked, an incredibly complicated and difficult procedure.