"sail" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And try and get the sails trimmed while the rain has stopped: there's no need to soak the men again.
- Without delay, all sails were unfurled and trimmed to the wind.
- The steersman watched the sails change shape and tension, and with the lever trimmed the direction of the ship to make up for it.
- The little windlasses were continually turning, playing lines in or out as the autopilot kept the sail trimmed at the correct angle to the Sun.
- With the sails trimmed he took up the perspective glass again.
- Bligh bore up and ordered the sails trimmed once more, when we perceived that the reefs jutted far out to sea ahead of us.
- He was sure that all was in order, the halliards well turned, the sails suitably trimmed.
- Before all the wounded had been carried below and the sails trimmed, the firing from thePeacock's guns had become sporadic.
- Aitken put down his speaking trumpet: the yards were braced and the sails trimmed.
- She looked sleek and graceful, her sails well cut and well trimmed.
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