Sentence examples for has sailed off from inspiring English sources

Upstairs the children lie asleep in their beds: I imagine them there, like people sleeping in the cabin of a ship that has sailed off its course, unconscious of the danger they're in.

She's addicted to the autobiographical books of Alex Rover, a fearless explorer who could be Indiana Jones's Scottish cousin, so one day when her dad has sailed off in search of some rare plankton, she's overjoyed to receive an email from her hero.

"The company has sailed off a cliff," BGC technology analyst Colin Gillis told the BBC.

1209 - Eng 306-5: Big Shannon Gabriel is immediately worked for a single by Prior, who has sailed off at a rate of knots.

After other shots that have sailed off line, he has pounded his club into a manicured tee or fairway.

I'm sure she'd rather have sailed off on a grand adventure with her friend Hermione at the start of those 16 years.

After all the fighting, you'd think Theseus and Ariadne would have sailed off into the sunset but Homer suggests she was already married (it happened then, too).

Yet Malaspina might as well have sailed off the edge of the earth, so forgotten have he and his achievements been in the annals of exploration over the last two centuries.

The Red Sox, under new ownership and an amiable new manager (Grady Little), who says that he plans never to go to sleep mad at any of his players, have sailed off to a 26-9 sthet, the best record in either league.

If not for Prickett spotting my lower back with her hand, I would have sailed off the belt, and by the end of the workout, I was panting like a sled dog.

(In fact, as I was writing that sentence it was announced that sweet Shirley Temple Black had sailed off on the Good Ship Lollipop). Celebrity deaths have always been covered salaciously by the most bottom-feeding of media, and I say that as someone who once stayed up late on a school night to watch a documentary about Elvis Presley's diet.