Sentence examples for sail like from inspiring English sources

"If you are pumping (the sail) like a maniac you can't always see which is the right mark.

Grand art deco theatres sail like pale liners over the city's cobbled hills, and great modern buildings rise like phoenixes.

"Just a cockpit and one little sail, like a Sunfish; in the summer I lived on the water".

Extremism is vile and destructive, but that doesn't mean that it isn't also pompous nonsense into which good jokes, keenly deployed, may sail like poisoned arrows.

On 10 July 1969, the Royal Mail vessel Picardy, steaming through the mid-Atlantic towards the Caribbean, encountered a yacht, drifting under a single sail, like the Marie Celeste.

Children may enjoy this hilarious battle, but most of "Secret" is so sly that its best jokes will sail, like the Burpulator, right over the heads of its intended audience.

The distinctive spines of Spinosaurus, which were long extensions of the vertebrae, grew to at least 1.65 m long and were likely to have had skin connecting them, forming a sail-like structure, although some authors have suggested that the spines were covered in fat and formed a hump.

His revolutionary vision of soaring, sail-like roofs harmonized with the building's harbour location.

Manhattan waterfront location inspires billowing white sail-like forms in glass.

The building is a slender white wedge that rises, sail-like, a hundred and seventy feet into the sky.

The sail-like curves of the west facade seem to be braced against the roar of the passing cars.