wales

Example Sentences

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He wanted to learn how to talk with wild wales.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2023

As its designers envision it, the Zagros trail will send travelers perpendicular to these wales and ridges, day by day, valley to valley.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

A drone has captured the moment when a kayaker had a close encounter with two curious wales in Argentina.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2021

Diana, princess of wales, was all over the tabloids.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2020

The segmental stern, the bottom and wales of which are wrought quite aft, and unite in the stern-post: it is now used in our navy, thus securing an after battery for the ship.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir