8 sentences with 'sail'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sail and other words derived from it.
• « Driven by the idea of how big the world must be, Pytheas set out to sail past the Carthaginian sentinels and reach the ocean beyond. »
• « He continued to sail along the coast of France, trading and noting the cultures of the people he encountered. »
• « In addition, a major advance in navigation took place in the time of Augustus, when the Romans learned to sail across the Indian Ocean using the monsoon winds to reach western India. There they could trade Chinese silk at much better prices. »
• « Attracted by the gold they could acquire through North African merchants, Europeans had tried, in the late Middle Ages, to sail along the continent's west coast, but their naval technology was insufficient. »
• « Columbus set sail in August 1492 with three small vessels - the Niña, the Pinta and Santa Maria - and 90 men. They reached the Bahamas in October. »
• « In Charlestown, Boston, Philadelphia and New York, the equivalent of millions of dollars worth of tea was taken hostage, either locked in warehouses or rotting in the holds of ships as they were forced to sail back to Britain. »
• « Sloat, anchored off the coast of Mazatlan, learned that the war had begun and quickly set sail for California. He seized the city of Monterey in July 1846, less than a month after a group of American settlers led by William B. Ide seized control of Sonoma and declared California a republic. »