Sentence examples for rather than sailing from inspiring English sources

"Before, people were buying floating real estate, flipping boats rather than sailing them," he said.

But rather than sailing on Titanic-like into a fantasy world in which teacher shortages don't exist, schools have ample funds and academisation can solve all ills (despite the evidence disproving this), the courageous and honest course of action would be to admit that we are heading into a very difficult period.

They instead spent those hours in the office, typing away rather than sailing away.

"By early 2016, the team was seeing a few balloons behave in a slightly weird way: lingering in an area rather than sailing away," he writes in today's announcement.

This new canal made water transport possible from New Orleans to Lake Erie on an internal route rather than sailing around the whole of the Eastern United States and entering through Canada.

Rather than sailing into next year's elections in a sentimental fog of Mandela nostalgia, the African National Congress is finding that its mythologizing of Mandela has left many voters anxious and uncomfortable with the lack of a Mandela-style figure to lead the country out of its problems of mass unemployment and poor education and health services.

And rather than sail the Mediterranean and Baltic next summer, Celebrity's Mercury will move to San Diego for 14-day Panama Canal cruises, followed by weeklong trips between Vancouver and Alaska.

Some crews will quit a ship rather than sail into pirate-infested waters.