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Example sentences for "bound ships"

  • Their seaworthiness and speed made the Downs the crux of inward-bound ships, whose only means of escaping their attentions was to incur another danger by "going back of the Goodwins.

  • In the case of outward-bound ships, the disposition of the two crews was of course reversed.

  • Nor was this all; in ports and roads remote, Destructive fires among whole fleets we send; Triumphant flames upon the water float, And out-bound ships at home their voyage end.

  • Nor was this all: in ports and roads remote, Destructive fires among whole fleets we send; Triumphant flames upon the waters float, And out-bound ships at home their voyage end.

  • We still kept along on the beaten track of homeward-bound ships, but with little expectation of making any prizes, and for some days overhauled none but neutral ships.

  • These islands are frequently sighted by India-bound ships, and it was my intention to cruise a few days in their vicinity, but the bad weather hurried me on.

  • The wind freshened as we drew out from the coast of Borneo, and by the time we had reached the track of the westward-bound ships, we found the monsoon blowing a whole topsail-breeze.

  • And meantime the outward-bound ships passed, running through our humiliated ranks under all the canvas they could show.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    articulate speech; bound book; bound bucket; bound coast; bound from; bound hand and foot; bound ships; bound together; boundary agreement; boundary demarcation; boundary line; bounden duty; dramatic entertainment; each number; future ages; greater speed; its appearance; know none; livestock production; long till; must speak; play with; second session; smooth surface; stock companies; this direction