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
“Make yourself at home,” the midwife said, as I hove into the birthing room like a galleon in full sail.
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2019
With its curved windows and white-tiled crested roof, the Elbphilharmonie dynamically contrasts with its sturdy, utilitarian brick foundation — a former cocoa warehouse — evoking a ship in full sail.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 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
There, back beyond our island, a ship under full sail had come to grief in the storm.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
