"sail" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

sail verbo

sail + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 13
sail the ship • sail a boat • sail the seas • sail several miles • sail one's yacht • ...
verbo + sail
Kolokacji: 7
begin sailing • start sailing • forced to sail • set sail • sail before returning • ...
sail + preposición
Kolokacji: 50
sail from • sail into • sail through • sail off • sail over • sail around • sail under • sail out • sail across • sail down • sail up • ...
sail + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 49
sail away • sail high • sail directly • sail later • sail right • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(1) away, forth, slowly, onward
Kolokacji: 4
(2) high, majestically, blithely
Kolokacji: 3
1. sail high = żagiel wysoki sail high
2. sail majestically = żegluj majestatycznie sail majestically
3. sail blithely = żegluj beztrosko sail blithely
  • Of course, we did not sail blithely down the center of the passage.
  • He blithely sails the bounding main, then sinks and drowns.
  • The picture was of a car struggling through a traffic jam, while a magic carpet sailed blithely over, its handsome family smiling.
  • Killeen felt suspended, all his hopes and designs dashed to oblivion by this immense simple thing that sailed so blithely through a planet.
  • Off they went, down the central aisle between cubicles, and Tony sailed blithely through a gamut of dagger glares from people who had just lost their extra coffee breaks.
  • Let us sail blithely by?
  • Perhaps-" Blake closed his eyes and held on as Terruns sailed blithely toward the side of another car coming out of a side street.
  • It went careening off the road, and Baal sailed blithely on, winner and owner of the road.
  • The two ships sailed back blithely to their anchorage under the protection of the guns on the parapets of the city walls.
  • Sartine had been patrolling off Pondichery with Pourvoyeuse when they sighted two East Indiamen, which were sailing blithely along, unaware of the outbreak of war.
(6) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(7) northward, northwards
Kolokacji: 2
(8) southward, southwards
Kolokacji: 2
(9) serenely, calmly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) smoothly, effortlessly
Kolokacji: 2

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