Sentence examples for as a sail from inspiring English sources

The animal moves by means of its crest, which functions as a sail.

"A song is a bed sheet used as a sail, prose is a barquentine fully-rigged".

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

The boat, which had a small outboard motor as well as a sail, ran out of fuel within two days of leaving.

It consists of four bright stars that form a quadrilateral and better fits the Arab designation of a tent, or the sailor's lore that identifies it as a sail.

All that seemed far away as he sailed the Caribbean, returning periodically to the New York area to run a sailing club, work as a sail rigger and take people for sunset sails.

In Russia it was usually represented as a sailing ship until the 20th century.

The Cup is known for being as much a technology race as a sailing race.

It was designated a landmark in 1986, and received a Coast Guard license as a sailing school in 1994.

I worked as a sailing instructor up there for a chap called John Ridgway, who was the first person to row across the Atlantic, back in 1966.

Six years later, his father, George, moved the family to New Orleans, to take a job as a sailing master for the Navy.