Sentence examples for a sailing back from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a sailing back" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a return journey by boat, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "After a long day on the water, we enjoyed a sailing back to the harbor."
Alternatives: "a return sail" or "a boat ride back".

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After a sailing back to Alotau for change of crew and provisioning, we had four days before our last crew member could join us.

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Here are Beowulf and his men, after a journey, sailing back to Geatland (this and all uncredited translations are by Tolkien): Forth sped the bark troubling the deep waters and forsook the land of the Danes.

Her office was now on Fifth Avenue, her home was in France, and she used the Atlantic Ocean as a corridor between, sailing back and forth to see the houses she was to do, and then working on their plans several thousand miles away.

Hecht liked to tell this story: In the early nineteen-twenties, while sailing back from a trip to Europe, he met a well-heeled woman who confided to him, "I have failed where every woman wants to succeed — as a mother".

Hecht liked to tell this story: In the early nineteen-twenties, while sailing back from a trip to Europe, he met a well-heeled woman who confided to him, "I have failed where every woman wants to succeed as a mother".

"It's such a great feeling and you're sailing back across the bay after a successful disentanglement," he says.

There's something about a population of homeowners who came into title via temper tantrums that cannot bode well for smooth sailing back to a stable real estate market.

During one of these missions, while sailing back from a trip to Bol on the Croatian island of Brač, she was chased by a Yugoslav gunboat and driven aground on a beach near Babin Kuk, just 2 mile north of Dubrovnik.

But in some ways, he really was sailing back to an earlier era, when American diplomats were less tied down.

But this race, like most of the others so far, featured one boat, albeit an impressively majestic and fast one, sailing back and forth across the water.

The idea for Polarsteps came to Niek Bokkers, one of the company's founders, when he set out to sea on a sailing peregrination back in 2013.

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