Sentence examples for sailed only from inspiring English sources

Of the 13 ships that sailed, only three returned.

His sister sailed only recreationally, so he lacked sibling rivalry.

The ball sailed only as far as the outfield grass, and he had to settle for a single.

In the absence of a multi-billion-dollar research budget and the necessary permissions, however, their ships have sailed only through the processor of a computer.

Ledley himself was the next to threaten, with a long-range effort which sailed only narrowly wide of Gianluigi Buffon's upright.

But they come instead, of course, from that wordy, wayward Manhattanite we know as Ishmael, whose own doomed vessel, the whaler Pequod, sailed only through the pages of "Moby-Dick".

And there is Dan Pennacchio, a retailer from New Rochelle, who has been sailing only a few years.

"To the extent I had the time and interest, I wanted to sail only in the new boats".

Among small craft of the Mediterranean, combination rowing and sailing boats were once typical, rather than boats built to sail only, but in modern times engines have almost completely replaced sails.

A man sailing westward from Bombay sails only off onto the left-hand margin of the page, it takes a considerable effort of imagination to see him sailing back on the right, safe into the Red Sea.

But what gives the Sea Cloud II her cachet is the fact that she sails only on charter.