Sentence examples for of a sail from inspiring English sources
In contrast, hypothesizing that a sail evolved in the immediate ancestor of Dimetrodon and its closest relatives and not in the common ancestor of Dimetrodon and mammals requires only one evolutionary change (i.e., the evolution of a sail in Dimetrodon's ancestor; no change to the non-sailed condition is needed).
PROFILE of Long Island Sound and an account of a sail cruise along its shores.
A pressure ridge is composed of a sail above the waterline and a keel below.
Instead of a sail, it too has a big screen planted on its deck.
In the latter case, judicious stem pruning might offer less of a "sail".
Early signaling between naval vessels was by prearranged messages transmitted by flags, lights, or the movement of a sail.
The loss in 1984 of a sail-training ship, the Marquesa, with 19 hands, helped change the regulatory environment, and brought in a new code of practice for such vessels.
Its criss-crossed cables make one think of a sailing ship's masts.
Rigging, the sails, masts, booms, yards, stays, and lines of a sailing vessel, or its cordage only.
"The Wake of the Blackfish" is a memoir of a sailing trip up the New England coast.
Spending a day on a sailboat last summer, Mr. Ruchonnet experienced some of the inconveniences of a sailing superyacht.
