How to Use sail in a Sentence

sail

1 of 2 noun
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  • Wind filled the sails and our journey had begun.
  • To taste the salty air and hear the wind chiming his sail rigging.
    — Lane Degregory, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Nate comes in with the election numbers behind me, with the wind in my sails.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 May 2023
  • But those headwinds might not take too much wind out of their sails.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The ship set sail at 8:45am local time Tuesday from Cyprus.
    — Scott McLean, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Understand the cost of your journey, and then set sail.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • More news to know now An aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food has set sail from Cyprus to Gaza.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The Star Legend is scheduled to set sail from Miami in the spring.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The team set sail from the island of Kiribati, about 1,200 miles south of Hawaii, in September.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Here are his favorite off-the-radar places to surf, hike, sail, and chill on empty beaches.
    — Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2022
  • On Tuesday, a ship packed with almost 200 metric tons of food set sail for the Strip from Cyprus.
    — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • For me, the decision whether to travel by engine or sail was easy.
    — Ingrid K. Williams, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • Late in the first half, Coyotes' punter Brysen Gardner, waiting for the play clock to go down to 0, watched a snap sail way over his head.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2022
  • In the early 1990s, the L.A. riots, the Northridge earthquake and a recession took further wind out of the new hall’s prospective sails.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • In August 1991, Charles and Diana indeed boarded a yacht and set sail along the Italian coast.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Allure of the Seas is one of the global cruise brand's 22 ships currently in service, and the first Oasis Class ship to set sail from Texas.
    — Megha McSwain, Chron, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Colors of Provence is a jaunt in mid-June that includes three nights in Paris before setting sail.
    — Essence, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The 417-foot-long ride is the largest sailing yacht in the world, the company notes, and the video shows off the vessel’s three sails and three decks—one of which features a swimming pool.
    — Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2023
  • As a nod to the proposal, the couple set sail with their guests on a party yacht from Marina del Rey.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In one, 18 people died when a boat that had set sail from Turkey sank off the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos.
    — Elena Becatoros, ajc, 2 Nov. 2022
  • After an overnight sail to Kauai, the ship docks at Nawiliwili Harbor.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The cruise was originally planned to set sail in 2020 but was delayed by the pandemic.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2023
  • On an average global route, each sail can save up to 1.5 tons of heavy fuel oil (HFO) per day.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That his speech, a bold statement of intent for the next two years, was so widely admired should put wind in the president’s sails.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Within hours of setting sail, the vessel, Hokulea, capsized.
    — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Thousands of yellow rubber ducks will soon set sail for a noble cause.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Others leave their old latitudes behind and set sail on the highways or high seas.
    — Anne Tergesen, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Heidi Klum is setting sail with her husband Tom Kaulitz!
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • The Egyptian ruler is said to have dipped her sails in perfume to attract suitors during her travels.
    — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The first ship carrying 7,000 cars set sail in January.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
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sail

2 of 2 verb
  • We'll sail along the coast.
  • We sat on the shore watching boats sail by.
  • The ship was sailed by a crew of 8.
  • He sailed around the world on a luxury liner.
  • I've been sailing since I was a child.
  • She's sailing a boat in tomorrow's race.
  • She sailed the Atlantic coastline.
  • They sail for San Francisco next week.
  • We sail at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
  • The ship was sailing at the request of the U.S. Embassy in Israel.
    — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Moana and Maui are sailing back to the big screen, very quickly.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • When Franklin walks up the gangplank to sail to Europe, the stairs come out now.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The warship had been sailing near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the time of the attack.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Using her right foot this time, the ball sailed just inside the top middle of the net.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Morikawa's approach on the playoff hole sailed a touch long, causing the ball to skip over the green and land in the rough.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
  • The video ends with him sailing in an ark through a global flood.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The Cooks were sailing to Biloxi, Miss., to attend a wedding.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The ship, which sailed from the port of Odessa on Sunday, is carrying steel bound for Africa.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Some worried Lawson was sailing too close to the sun, so to speak.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Set a bucket in the center of the inner tube, fill it with ice and drinks, and send it sailing away on the water.
    — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2023
  • JSerra pulled even at 24-24 on an ace the Falcons thought was sailing long.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Attempting to sail out of the large front could have been dangerous.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
  • The ship had sailed west toward Rio de Janeiro, though it was never headed there.
    — Sasha Chapman, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Get in the habit before takeoff to look for anything that can fly, fall or sail, and secure it.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • A day later, the drone ship sailed into Port Canaveral, just south of SpaceX's launch pads, with the rocket's wreckage on the deck.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Link has sailed across the sea, lived above the clouds, transformed into a wolf and even become a train conductor.
    — Zachary Small, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • Sometimes a ship doesn’t sail, or there are last-minute vacancies that must be filled.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The old schooner Jackson had sailed around the South Pacific sank in the bay one day and was pulled up onto the beach and became the shipwreck bar.
    — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The series hasn’t sailed so smoothly as of late, however.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Part of the fun of sailing on a cruise is wandering the ship for those quiet corners to relax on your own.
    — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2024

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