Sentence examples for sailed from high-quality English sources.

• He sailed along much of the western coast.

• The next year, he sailed his 30-foot ketch, Scotia, from Ireland to Cape May without instruments.

• He’s also sailed up to Iceland, around the Faroe Islands, around the UK – and even across the Atlantic.

• Upon the tenth day we were chased by two pirates, who soon overtook us; for my sloop was so deep laden, that she sailed very slow, neither were we in a condition to defend ourselves.

• They sailed from Panama the following year.

• Each Saturday one packet sailed from each city.

• However, he still continued to map wherever he sailed.

• He sailed upstream to the vicinity of what is now Albany, N.Y.

Use sailed in a sentence.

• In 1524 he sailed around Sandy Hook and anchored in New York Bay.

• The next year Hudson sailed westward from Europe in command of the Half Moon.

• In 1609 the Englishman Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name.

• In July 1876 he again sailed to the West Indies, as a steward on the Saint-Antoine.

• As commander of the Investigator, he again sailed from England for Australia in 1801.

• They then sailed through the Indian Ocean to Calicut (Kozhikode), India, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

• He worked as a farmer and public official before he sailed under Diego Velásquez to help conquer Cuba in 1511.

• After a short stay in the United States, where Humboldt was received by President Jefferson, they sailed for France.

sailed sentence examples

• The French expedition eluded the British warships and sailed first for Malta, which the French seized early in June.

• He sailed from Mexico to the California coast, naming San Diego, Santa Catalina Island, Santa Barbara, and Monterey.

• Davis seems to have commanded the Black Dog against the Spanish Armada (1588) and sailed with Thomas Cavendish on his last voyage (1591).

• In 1602 George Weymouth sailed a short way into Hudson Strait, and in 1610 Henry Hudson, on his last voyage, sailed the Discovery into Hudson Bay and south to James Bay, where he was forced to winter.