Sentence examples for sailed it for from inspiring English sources

The Essex's captain, George Pollard, Jr., survived, and persuaded his financial backers to give him another ship, but he sailed it for little more than a year before it foundered on a coral reef.

"This was his favorite race, and I am sailing it for him," she said.

The yacht, sponsored by Hugo Boss, left England in May; Mr. Thomson and a small crew sailed it here last week for practice and publicity.

Andy starts to hoist the main sail, but is prevented from doing so by a broker who is to sail it to the Caribbean for the buyer.

Wistful, he said, he found a YouTube video of the Dyche family happily sailing it across the Atlantic, bound for Ireland.

It sailed for Gabon, where they were destined for forced work on plantations.

Like Isler and Glaser, the men realized that the point off Bradley's Head was paying huge dividends, and sailed directly for it.

Lilly tried throwing a curve to Cameron but released the ball on an upward plane, and it sailed for a wild pitch and another run.

Ms. Brown, who was 44, organized a survivors' committee on the rescue ship, the Carpathia, as it sailed for New York, and included everyone regardless of what class ticket a passenger had bought.

Despite the orders, desertion from the fleet was high, and the forces was reduced to about 850 when it sailed for Port Royal in late August.

Artabanes failed to catch up with the expedition before it sailed for Sicily, and his own fleet was driven back and scattered by severe storms in the Ionian Sea.