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

The penmanship is deft, confident – at the island’s southern end is an intricate compass rose, and the sketch of a galleon at full sail.

From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2018

“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

Privately he paid still more to the captain to make sure they would travel at full sail, no matter the weather.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood