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Example sentences for "rudderless"

Lexicographically close words:
rucksacks; ruckus; ruction; ructions; rudder; rudders; ruddier; ruddily; ruddiness; ruddled
  1. But even that hypothesis did not account for the morbid and rudderless state he was in now.

  2. XVIII A rudderless ship in mid-ocean, he wandered long and aimlessly about the byways of the city.

  3. Ahead of the times, with your rudderless airships!

  4. Upon the return of Mr. St. George, he and his friend will simply be set adrift in a rudderless airship, an offering to the great idea of space.

  5. Woe then to the distressed and rudderless vessel that drifts towards those fatal rocks!

  6. Would that I were in a rudderless ship on a stormy sea rather than on this accursed rock.

  7. Three days and three nights the rudderless ship flew with a single sail over the surface of the ocean.

  8. To him Bar Noemi related all his wonderful adventures, his marvellous deliverance from the ocean on a sailless, rudderless raft, the loathsome spectacles in Triton's corrupted city, and his fight with the godless giant.

  9. It humbled him to feel his purpose tossing rudderless on unruly waves of emotion, yet strive as he would he could not regain a hold on it.

  10. He understood what it was to be rudderless in a familiar current, and came to the rescue of his friend's consistency by asserting that any such decision regarding the gun, if one had been made, would certainly be disputed.

  11. There he was, paddling for dear life; now leaping to his great pile of timber, steering it with his paddle round a bend, then back to his string bed with the tow rope, to haul the rudderless mass to a straight line again.

  12. But, altogether, I felt myself in a most distracted, rudderless state.

  13. One evening I sat on a heavenward hill, The winds were asleep and all nature was still, Wee children came round me to play at my knee, As my mind floated rudderless over the sea.

  14. It is hard to conceive a soul entirely cut loose from the old bones, and roving rudderless about eternity.

  15. My small experience is that they regard death with far more concern and dread than the rudderless ones who believe the grave is the end.

  16. From Honor he heard erratically, and gathered that she drifted rudderless amid new impressions now here, now there.

  17. You are as incapable of guiding yourself aright, as a rudderless bark is of stemming the gulf-stream in a south-west gale; and I am afraid to trust you out of my sight.

  18. The "Nancy Bell" appears to be a well-found ship, on its way out from the United Kingdom to New Zealand, but she is beset early on by a severe storm which leaves her rudderless and mastless.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rudderless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.