Sentence examples for were sailing on from inspiring English sources

"Several swans were sailing on the lake amid dark clutches of wildfowl," Mr. McGahern writes in one passage.

Some of our papers were written while we were sailing on Richard's boat on the bay.

In August 1929, two of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Werner Heisenberg and Paul Dirac, were sailing on a cruise ship to a conference in Japan.

On 9 August, 1945 my father and grandfather were sailing on the Solent when the second atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki.

Okonek and Dielen, 55, were sailing on a yacht between Sabah, Malaysia on the Island of Borneo to the Island of Palawan in the western Philippines when Abu Sayyaf gunmen raided their boat in April.

However, because Halsey could not afford to take the slow battleships with his fast carriers on his dash to reinforce Wake Island's Marine detachment with fighters and because it was Pye's turn to rest in port and the harbor was where "it was safe", none of the battleships were sailing on that morning.

"Climb on the couch with your friends and pretend you are sailing on a ship to a distant land," reads one idea.

This day, I'm sailing on that same water.

Seven passengers are sailing on a small ocean liner.

Depending on style would be sailing on a deceptively calm sea.

Just a tilt of the neck, and I'm sailing on through.