Sentence examples for a sail on a from inspiring English sources

They're shallow rooted, and seem to have the same relation to wind as a sail on a ship.

Photons carry momentum, and these photons would hit the sail and push the spacecraft the way wind pushes a sail on a sailboat.

To reduce the glare from a skylight, Mr. Talese has put together a plastic foam canopy that swoops over his U-shaped desk like a sail on a blustery day.

"This is the easy part," he said, as one of the panels was hoisted up the side of the building much as though it were a sail on a boat, and then smoothed into place.

I begin with a sail on a ship of the desert.

The two men entertained themselves choosing a vessel and imagining a sail on Chesapeake Bay.

A sail on the Solent.

As for switching off, I am pretty good at making sure I take time to recharge my batteries on Necker Island -- a swim, a sail on my kitesurf or a game of tennis gives me the break I need.

For example, detailed phylogenetic research indicates that Edaphosaurus, which falls in the group called "edaphosaurids" in Fig. 4b, and Dimetrodon, which falls in the group called "sphenacodontids" in Fig. 4b, do not share a common ancestor that possessed a sail on its back, despite the fact that both Edaphosaurus and Dimetrodon have sails on their backs.

A great day for a sail on the Czarna Perla (Black Pearl)!

On 16 May, approximately 40 mile northeast of Cape Henry, a lookout spotted a sail on the horizon.