Sentence examples for sailed close from inspiring English sources

At times the campaign sailed close to the wind.

Cruise ships had sailed close to Giglio before.

The Arctic Sunrise sailed close to the Prirazlomnaya drilling platform in the Pechora sea.

His obsession with keeping Thatcher out of power was such that he frequently sailed close to the wind.

He sailed close to the wind in business and was fined in 2007 for insider trading, a penalty that he paid without appeal.

Even the unimpeachably right-on Angelina Jolie sailed close to the wind playing Mariane Pearl, wife of kidnapped journalist Daniel Pearl, in the 2007 movie A Mighty Heart.

Besides being faster, SUI-64 sailed closer to the wind -- or higher, in sailing lingo.

The remaining high-island peoples mostly sailed closer to their home islands, although they were visited from time to time by low islanders.

On the fourth leg of the six-leg race, OneWorld headed to the right of the course, while Oracle sailed closer inshore.

The Israeli military said naval forces fired warning shots at a Palestinian fishing boat that had sailed closer to Israeli waters than the three nautical miles the country has designated as a fishing zone boundary.

It was spectacular and as we sailed closer to them, they weaved in and out under our boat.