Sentence examples for sails slowly from inspiring English sources

An iceberg sails slowly up the nearby fjord.

Then a dead calm set in, and the Gjöa sailed slowly into Nome, Alaska.

Ducks routinely swam by our table, and one morning, an elegant black swan sailed slowly in front of us.

Sipping mine, I saw Evelyn gesture with her eyes toward the window over Maugham's shoulder, and, shifting my gaze, caught sight of a paper airplane as it sailed slowly down from above and impaled itself in a jacaranda.

Big cumulus clouds... sail slowly overhead and release their rain — fat, soft, far-apart drops that the Ju/wasi call female rain, or small, hard, fast-falling drops of male rain".

At the Place de la Bastille the waterway goes underground for almost 1 mile (1.6 km) and then emerges to form the Saint-Martin Canal, which, with its bridges and locks and its barges sailing slowly down the centre of city streets, constitutes one of the least-known and most picturesque sections of Paris.

It's immensely relaxing to spend the early evening by the shore, sitting on a bench, watching tugboats and thrillingly huge tankers sail slowly past, letting a horse-chestnut tree drop pale flowers on your head and idly wondering why the park isn't crowded with urban planners observing how variously and harmoniously this community makes use of its waterfront.

Ferris began by sailing slowly northwards, using the light winds to pull ahead of the combat before tacking back towards Formidable.

The collision severely damaged her bow and she had to sail slowly to Trondheim for emergency repairs lest the forward bulkhead collapse.

Over the following eight days, he wrote 25,000 words of increasingly tortured prose, drifting farther and farther from reality, as Teignmouth Electron continued sailing slowly north, largely untended.

As Bounty sailed slowly towards Tubuai, Bligh's launch, overcoming many dangers and hardships, made its way steadily towards civilisation and reached Coupang (now Kupang), on Timor, on 14 June 1789.