Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sailing
IPA transcription: [s'eɪlɪŋ]
Pronunciations of sailing
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: seafaring, navigation, sailing
    Meaning: the work of a sailor
  • Synonyms: sailing
    Meaning: riding in a sailboat
  • Synonyms: sailing
    Meaning: the departure of a vessel from a port
Usage examples
  • We're sailing next week."
  • Borne on a gentle breeze, a large crane-fly comes sailing out of the wood.
  • "The delay in the sailing of your ship offers me an opportunity of writing to you again.
  • "There's not a doubt of it!" I returned warmly, glad to find that with Edra it was all plain sailing.
  • "Mrs. W. was a little indisposed, and would decline coming on board until to-morrow, at the hour of sailing."
  • He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared, When the ship had been sailing a week, He could only kill Beavers.
  • It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart.
  • SAILING homeward, the Doctor's ship had to pass the coast of Barbary. This coast is the seashore of the Great Desert.
  • He wanted to make a gigantic gyroscope weighing several tons, to be run by an electric motor and put on a sailing ship.
  • "Pretty little sea horses with slender, curving bodies often went sailing above me, or would come to rest upon my back.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Priapus, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording California Gold Rush, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Moe Berg, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Robert Garran, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording SS Ohioan (1914), License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Brownhills, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fin whale, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Benjamin Franklin, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Trincomalee, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Menai Suspension Bridge, License CC BY-SA 4.0