full sail
Example Sentences
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Among the vignettes arrayed across the background plane are a ship at full sail, another docked and being unloaded, a lighthouse and a sacrifice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
There is a mightiness to her party entrances, sweeping into a room like a galleon in full sail, which would do as well for Wolf Hall as Buck House.
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2019
“Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA,” the art extravaganza that fills some 70 Southern California art institutions to celebrate the foundational presence of Latin American art in the region, is now under full sail.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2017
Her voice grew gentle, almost maternal—it was like watching the wind drop out of the world, flattening a full sail.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015
Still, he was alive, and the wind was in his hair, and the cloud was scudding through the sky like a galleon at full sail.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
