"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
(6) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(7) northward, northwards
Kolokacji: 2
(8) southward, southwards
Kolokacji: 2
1. sail southward = żegluj na południe sail southward
  • On 25 February, the convoy left Balikpapan, and sailed southward to Java.
  • They were still far north and had purposed to sail southward to some better haven.
  • Argos raised an army of mercenaries, which went into ships and sailed southward along the coast.
  • So he sailed southward under the west-going stars, and the long night passed slowly, until the first day of the new year brightened all the sea.
  • When I get to the Atlantic I'm sailing southward along the coast.
  • He had a sudden overwhelming desire to take one of the Sulcar ships, man it with his mountain fighters, and sail southward.
  • On reporting to Hotham the fleet was announced to be sailing southward.
  • Southward sailed we through many seas.
  • It was then, the analysts now believed, that the minisub had slipped from her secret compartment and sailed southward along the Colombian coast.
  • So they sailed southward ever, through smooth waters and past the islands that lie like water-lilies in the midland sea.
2. sail southwards = żagiel na południe sail southwards
(9) serenely, calmly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) smoothly, effortlessly
Kolokacji: 2

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