Sentence examples for is sailing off from inspiring English sources

"The system is sailing off a cliff.

It is sailing off Corfu," a shipping ministry official said.

William M. Shepherd is sailing off on his greatest voyage, as commander of the first crew to live aboard the International Space Station.

Today, a man's outfit is likely to suggest that he'd be happier if he were anywhere other than where he is — sailing off Nantucket, say, J.F.K.-style, instead of working in an office in 2015.

He and another Godfather's executive worked out a leveraged buyout, improved the business, and the next thing you know, it's 1996 and Cain is sailing off to other projects, including talk radio, politics and serving on the boards of seven different corporations at the same time.

The family were sailing off the English coast in their glossy racing barge, Tenace, when, in a grey mist, they collided with a ship.

In 1833 a London carpenter identified as H. Manning created one of the first, the Manning Portable Cottage, for his son, who was sailing off to make his fortune in Australia.

For years, the British Film Institute has been struggling to make sense of the fact that the historic cinema repertory, the kind of cinema that was available at the Academy in Oxford Street or at splendid pioneering film societies all over the country in the 1950s and 1960s, seems to be sailing off fast into the distance.

On the evening of 26 March 2010, the Cheonan, a South Korean warship, was sailing off Baengnyeong island close to the disputed maritime border when an explosion split it in two.

If by now he's sailing off into the horizon, the sun beating down on his hazelnut head.

"The only thing they said after they were sailing off into the distance was: "we are returning to normal operations," Davis said.