Sentence examples for a soft sail from inspiring English sources

It is called a soft sail compared to the rigid wing.

What followed were a soft sail of sesame-seeded bread; exquisite kibbe fashioned from finely ground beef and pistachios; cigar-thin dolma filled with tart rice; tender meatballs the size of marbles; fish wrapped in grape leaves; a salad of figs and tomatoes; orbs of candied eggplant and a crescent of pumpkin draped with walnut sauce.

The boats will remain catamarans somewhere in the 55-foot size range and will use a type of soft sail to replace the wing.

It gave USA-17 an edge over the soft sails of Alinghi's catamaran.

Seen from across the West Side Highway, the tower's twinkling facade, with its hundreds of irregularly shaped windows tilted at odd angles to reflect fragments of sky or the surrounding city, offers a striking counterpoint to the soft, sail-like curves of Mr. Gehry's creation.

And while Alinghi uses soft sails, BMW Oracle's boat has a segmented vertical wing, with nine flaps that can be individually adjusted for wind conditions.

For decades, Sunday sailors could identify with America's Cup yachts, with their monohull designs, soft sails, narrow decks and relatively benign speeds.

Luna Rossa, for now, appears committed to competing in the AC72 yachts, the big, fast catamarans with wing sails that represent a new age for the America's Cup, which began in 1851 and has traditionally been contested in much slower monohull yachts with soft sails.

"There are designers and engineers who are from the sailing world but with perhaps aeronautical background, because they're using solid wing masts rather than soft sails which we've previously seen.

He has a comfortable home by the water in Maine, a soft spot for his boisterous labs and a dinghy he likes to sail with his wife.

A soft wind.