Sentence examples for immense sail from inspiring English sources

The crowd, like an immense sail going limp in a change of wind, sighed with relief.

"The immense sail was taut, its mirror surface sparkling and glittering gloriously in the Sun … Something so huge, yet so frail, was hard for the mind to grasp.

Historical notes: Shut your eyes and try to imagine dozens of 500-ton treasure galleons slicing their way across the Atlantic to Spain, their immense sails emblazoned with the fiery red cross of the Holy Roman Empire.

They were travelling in a cange, a 40-foot boat with an immense triangular sail.

Feats of Navigation As far as we know, the first settlers reached these islands 1,500 years ago, sailing across immense reaches of the Pacific from the Marquesas Islands in twin-hulled canoes.

The complexities surrounding the search are immense: the area is six days' sail from the nearest shore and previously unmapped, with water depths of up to 6,000m and underwater mountains, crevasses and 2,000m sheer drops.

The pleasures of sailing on such an immense vessel include, of course, the wide choice of entertainment and activities.

It commands the hill as the Parthenon does the Acropolis, its immense roof a great airfoil or billowing sail appearing to lift the building off the earth, and simultaneously seeming to weigh it down, compress it.

Skiffs with canvass sails ply the channel between the mainland and the immense, isolated Île de la Gonâve in the bay.

It is something akin to a grueling multi-day hike or a sailing adventure that combines moments of pain and frustration with those of immense and overwhelming joy.

So the architects designed this gorgeous bridge, but the problem with the Golden Gate is that this is an extremely tumultuous area, if you've ever sailed through this or taken a boat through this, the waves are immense.