Definition: 1. A sheet of strong cloth which the wind blows against to make a boat or ship travel through the water. 2. To travel on water using sails or an engine. 3. A trip in a boat or ship. 4. Move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions.
Use 'sail' in a sentence:
1. I shall get myself a little boat and sail her around the world.
2. We discovered this beach while we were sailing around the island.
3. The Kruzenshtern is expected to sail for Boston this week.
4. It would be foolhardy to sail in weather like this.
5. He loaded his vessel with another cargo and set sail.
6. He found sailing more pleasurable than skiing.
7. They dropped the sails and threw a line to a man on the dock.
8. A rope fouled up as we pulled the sail down.
9. Naomi James became the first woman to sail solo around the world via Cape Horn.
10. We went for a sail.
11. The sails swelled in the wind.
12. That boat has a new sail.
13. The ferry sails from Newhaven to Dieppe.
14. We discerned a sail on the horizon.
15. The sail of the little boat swung crazily from one side to the other.
16. A usually triangular sail attached to the forestay or headstay of a sailboat.
17. His ambition is to sail around the world.
18. Conditions are ideal for sailing today.
19. His crew's job is to sail the boat.
20. She sailed past me, ignoring me completely.
21. We spent the weekend sailing off the south coast.
22. We're going sailing on Saturday.
23. The ship's sail cast a shadow on the water.
24. The white sails billow with the breezes they catch.
25. Earlier this year, the team put Clemmons's unlikely theory to the test, using a 40-square-metre rectangular nylon sail.
26. The sunken sail boat was a glimmer of white on the bottom.
27. The sail looked like the flag of failure forever.
28. They set sail with the first fair wind.
29. The boat may be imbalanced by having that weight far astern and may "squat" in the water and not sail as well.
30. The trawler had sailed from the port of Zeebrugge.
31. We used sail power and turned the engine off to save our fuel.
32. As the boat moved down the river the wind began to fill the sails.
33. The centre offers activities like canoeing and sailing and such.
34. The activities on offer include sailing and mountain biking.
35. They could not talk, the old sail flapped so furiously, even if the other noises would have allowed them.
36. Students must know how to sail before they join the ship.
37. She moved away like a ship in full sail.
38. It was too rough to sail that night.
39. For nearly two hundred miles she sailed on, her sails hard with ice.
40. We can never promise to sail anywhere in particular, because the weather might militate against it.
41. The ship was given the all-clear to sail.
42. Do you go sailing often?
43. The ship sailed around the point.
44. The dinghy sailed smoothly across the lake.
45. The Seaflower was being repaired, but soon she was fit to sail again.
46. The sails filled with wind.
47. A white sail moves along the horizon.
48. She sails her own yacht.
49. He sailed for the West Indies from Portsmouth.
50. Most visitors come to sail or windsurf.
51. While a ketch offers these advantages to cruisers, they may also be more expensive because of the added mast and sail.
52. The sails hung limply in the flat calm.
53. Steamships captured the North Atlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of its much greater speed.
54. The wind filled the sails.
55. Why did King Aegeus feel upset and jump into the sea as soon as he saw the black sail?
56. The collective name for mast, boom and sails on a boat is the 'rig'.
57. We sail at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
58. The repaired sail lasted less than 24 hours.
59. The ball sailed over the goalie's head.
60. When does your steamer sail?
61. We set sail (for France) at high tide.
62. We set sail at high tide.
63. It was she who first introduced the pleasures of sailing to me.
64. The staff will be happy to help arrange for you to swim, sail, or water-ski.
