Sentence examples for sailed about from inspiring English sources

Outfielder Alex Rios chased Corporan's drive to the wall, but it sailed about five rows into the stands.

He sailed about on a raft across a bay behind their house & watched 2 old swans raise their young.

Had the next pass from Fitzpatrick sailed about six inches closer toward Johnson in the end zone, the Bills might have scored there, too.

Dr. Zelicoff, a physician, quoted a former Soviet official as saying the accident occurred when a plume of smallpox germs sailed about nine miles on the wind.

In the Gabriel Frobisher sailed about 60 miles (100 km) up the long inlet named for him, which he took to be a strait, and brought home a rock sample that was identified wrongly as containing gold.

On Friday, two South Korean patrol boats fired warning shots at six North Korean fishing vessels that had sailed about half a mile into South Korean-controlled waters, the South Korean military said in a statement.

Scores of pro-Palestinian activists, including a group of Americans, are planning to sail about 10 vessels from European ports toward Gaza to protest Israel's control of Gaza's waters.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including a group of Americans, are planning to sail about 10 vessels from Greece and other European ports in the coming days to protest Israel's naval blockade of Gaza.

Moments later, a pack of small white butterflies fluttered out of the dusty underbush, looking like hydrangea petals sailing about.

The pair set off on New Year's Eve and the race was due to last three months, with the boats sailing about 23,000 nautical miles non-stop around the world from west to east.

In excruciatingly slow motion my wife flew up into the air, went sailing about ten feet, and hit the ground in a heap.