Sentence examples for sail set from inspiring English sources

It is in the shape of a sail, set in layers of stone that approximate the prow of a ship cutting the water.

But isn't it a splendid sight to stand upon the lofty parapets by the side of a gun as large as Barnstead Meeting house and look off upon the ocean and see first a large ocean steamship with every sail set and puffing & blowing away like a Methodist preacher, moving on the silvery surface of the water with all the majesty of a monarch".

Each one looks like small jellyfish, but has a blue disc-like float above its tentacles and a translucent sail set at an angle to its body.

The hulking black sail set in a depressed part of a depressed Spanish town forged the idea that a place could be reinvented and regenerated single-handedly by a building with enough modernistic baubles on it.

When the sail luffs, it means that you are heading too much into the wind for your current sail setting.

Broadcasters dispensed with advertising and game shows; the windmills stopped turning, their sails set slightly off-kilter in a way that has betokened grief for centuries.

The NFL Legends cruise sets sail May 8 from New York en route to Dover.

The sail is set at the design incidence, which seems appropriate for applications to jib sails.

At approximately 1 30 pm the ship set sail for New York City.

Kirilenko's service return sailed long, setting up another match point with Kirilenko serving.

Later this year it will set sail on Celebrity cruise ships.