Sentence examples for sail instead of from inspiring English sources

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Yet, he said, "With the little money we had, she advised me to buy a sail instead of a dress".

I took it as a rainbow sign: the Ultimate Editor wanted me to clean up, simplify, set sail instead of just waiting for my ship to come in.

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Lastly, it seems like the true sleeper phone is awakening, and Verizon wants to get on board before that ship sails instead of being late to the party like it's been with, you know, everything else.

At the end of the examination, Socrates characterizes what he has accomplished: "This is how you should talk to your boyfriends, Hippothales, making them humble and drawing in their sails, instead of swelling them up and spoiling them, as you do" (210e2 5).

Fearing British capture if he sailed for France from the Caribbean, Jérôme sailed instead for the United States.

Four Australians were arrested to prevent them from joining the Confederate ships, and Governor Darling allowed the Shenandoah to sail away, instead of firing upon it.

Dreaming in his youth of the sea, of "endless, wide-open spaces," Columbus, Taviani writes, "developed a symbiotic relationship with the ocean and with the constellations". Columbus became seized by a dream, Taviani says, a "grand design": the dream of reaching the Asian mainland by sailing west instead of trudging the long and politically volatile land-and-sea route east.

The nucleus of Halley's comet rotates once every week as it sails through space instead of every 2.2 days, the rate previously suggested, an astronomer has reported.

He had violated his written orders in sailing to Nassau instead of Virginia and the Carolinas, and he had distributed the goods taken during the cruise to Connecticut and Rhode Island without consulting Congress.

Then they said the rules favored lightweight American boats because the Brits had to sail across the Atlantic instead of arriving aboard a larger ship.

Day 27: Hilarious dream: Instead of sailing West to the Orient, we were sailing EAST.

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