Sentence examples for a boat gliding from inspiring English sources

ON A boat gliding its way down an undulating peninsula where the dense virgin woods are crowned by a numinous marble peak, the atmosphere is carefree.

Hadley never fails to surprise, but her surprises are understated — not the "aha" fakery of some gimmicky short fiction but the small shift in expectations or results that's deeply felt but doesn't show, like the twitch of a rudder that sets a boat gliding on a new course.

"Whip, whip/Run me like a racehorse" lyrics are coupled with cops on police horses, followed by epic scenes of a cop boat gliding over a body water and cop-topped motorcycles.

In a sister programme the company has a large boat gliding up and down the Amazon, selling packaged food and ice cream to the people living along its banks.

The restaurant's many picture windows offer diners a floor show, boats gliding in and out of the marina.

It wasn't that various cabinet ministers, in suits and ties, had joined the throngs of men dancing to earsplitting techno-pop in pink leather jockstraps, Roman gladiator gear, or patent-leather Speedos on a flotilla of boats gliding along the canals.

(Paramount, May 19, $18.99) CHARLES TAYLOR The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Think of Boston and images of genteel, picturesque beauty come to mind: swan boats gliding across the pond at the Public Garden, a Paul Revere statue nobly silhouetted against the sky.

The high winter sky arcing Arctic-wards toward Canada, the steely lake waters, the black silhouettes of ore boats gliding distantly by, the immense span of the Mackinac Bridge (one young woman plunges her car off it in a snowstorm): these seem to offer -- and at the same time withhold -- the reality that eludes them.

I've never been sailing, but that doesn't keep me from enjoying the beauty of the white sails and the colorful boats gliding across the water.

Using whatever mode of transport is available – speed boats gliding on the huge tributaries, trucks, and motorbikes speeding on muddy roads with gaping potholes and finally a motorised canoe dodging rocky boulders and shooting rapids – the vaccines were hand-carried from a district capital about 250 kilometres away to this village of 800 people.

But instead of a valley floor, the boats were gliding over six-foot crests of roiling blue water.