6 sentences with 'sailing'

Example sentences and phrases with the word sailing and other words derived from it.

« We had arrived there a few days before, after sailing 1600 kilometers on the high seas. »
« Human settlements and ships sailing in the Antarctic area contribute the oil derivatives responsible for the pollution. Penguins know something about it. More than once they have suffered from their "smokings" being irreparably oiled and their whole life drowned in black spots. »
« Another disaster occurred in 1199 when Constantinople itself was invaded and sacked by crusaders (during the Fourth Crusade) from Western Europe who were supposed to be sailing to fight in the Holy Land. »
« At the same time, the Norse added sails to their unique sailing ships, the drakkar. Sailing ships enabled the Norse to travel quickly across the Baltic and ultimately across the waterways of Europe. »
« In the end, the Crusaders established a Latin Christian government that lasted some fifty years, completely ignoring their original goal of sailing to the Holy Land. The only lasting effect of the Fourth Crusade was the weakening of Byzantium against Turkish invaders in the future. »
« Until about 1400, Europeans did not have ships capable of sailing an entire ocean (Viking longboats of the Middle Ages were an exception, but they were no longer in use by the time of the Renaissance), and European understanding of geography and navigation was extremely primitive. »

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