Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with sails; having sails set: as, full-sailed.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sail .
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Examples
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The head of the tree, with three sailors of the Aorai and the old captain sailed off over the lagoon.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI 2010
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States of America, and who sailed from the port of Philadelphia, in
Chapter 19 2010
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In 1891, broke and despairing of recognition as an artist, Gauguin sailed for the South Seas, seeking liberation, as he famously said, "from everything that is artificial and conventional."
Tate Modern Exhibition Makes a Fresh Case for Gauguin Paul Levy 2010
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States of America, and who sailed from the port of Philadelphia, in
Chapter 19 2010
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After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair.
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Carlin sailed the yacht across the finish line on April 9, 1974, and was declared the overall winner.
Did You Know? Mexico yachtsman won the first round-the-world yacht race 2008
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Carlin sailed the yacht across the finish line on April 9, 1974, and was declared the overall winner.
Did You Know? Mexico yachtsman won the first round-the-world yacht race 2008
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The queerest ship that ever sailed is a yacht on wheels, a graceful land-going clipper, that glides over the pathless stretches of sun-blistered plain, and carries her plucky navigators to and from their gold mine in the desert.
2008 April 2008
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If we sailed from the coast we see in this photograph, we could reach any other coast in the world that we set our minds to reach, just like Darwin did when he arrived at Easter Island, where no customs agent awaited him.
Fragment 2007
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Again, I jus 'want t' say that I agree wi 'ye. 't bothers be t' nay ends that conservatives be havin 'sailed' down th 'path o' legislatin 'behavior an' fear mongerin '.
Nur Englisch David 2007
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