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

And the watchers on the shore saw the wind shift, the waves subside, and the Greek ship leave the harbor, flying under full sail to the sea beyond.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton