Close at hand one of the sailboats of the fleet was bearing down upon them.
Two or three of thesailboats would, in fact, be at hand first.
Two sailboatswere now engaged in the work of rescue, and a third was heading for Mr. Salisbury and his engineer.
A light early breeze was blowing, which the boatmen did not want to lose, and so, as our young couple were stepping out of doors, a whole flotilla of sailboats glided past on the Spree.
And now and then a couple of big sailboats glide by, but they are all alike, or at least they look very similar.
The sailboats are generally small square-sterned sloops, open in the afterpart, but with a cuddy forward.
The other vessels comprise sailboats under 5 tons and rowboats.
A short distance below them there was a cross road which led down to the lake, at the foot of which in the dusk of the evening he had noticed a small pier or jetty near which a number of canoes, sailboats and row-boats were moored.
As it was still early there were many young people out on the lake in canoes and sailboats returning to shore and the sounds of their voices came softly across the water.
There were sailboats and rowboats to hire, and there was a motor boat in which one could ride all around the lake for ten cents.
I used to be a sailor and I once worked at a dock where rowboats and sailboats were rented out,” he went on, “and lots of times I’d take out parties of children.
Sometimes he and Mr. Craik's little boy would play with tiny sailboats and paddle about in the water.
The children would often take their littlesailboats to some inlet, where they would play sailor.
And then I was watching two of thesailboats to see if they would bump together, and I didn't look at Bunny.
Now and then the men on board the sailboats would haul up the rakes, which were shaped something like a man's hand is when half closed and all the fingers and the thumb are spread out.
Of course the sailboats could use much larger rakes and cover a wider part of the cove.
All kinds of ships, from tiny sailboats to large ocean liners, come here from all parts of the world.
Hundreds of launches, sailboats and rowboats were out on the water.
Strolling along, they came to a long, steeply sloping gangway that descended to a floating dock, to which were tied several small sailboats that rocked quietly on the smooth swell of Cliffport Bay.
A light, early-morning haze made the colors of the sailboats that floated in the bay seem soft and pale.
He envied the leisurely sailboats that the liner was always leaving behind.
Sailboats sometimes had to wait entire months for a strong breeze that would enable them to conquer the impetuous mouth of the strait.
From the door of the Athenaeum the experts used to point out the Latin sailboats that were about to double the promontory.
Small tugs and sailboats have jammed themselves half into the buildings, where they were landed by the incoming waves, and left by the receding waters.
The sailboats across the bay are crowded to their fullest capacity, and they make as many round trips each day as they can.
Down at the harbour, sailboats and steamers were being washed and dressed up.
The Goldwing, and a sloop called the Emma, were the only sailboatsbelonging to Beech Hill.
The lines were cast off, and both sailboats were ready to return to Beech Lake.
While the fog had hidden the harbour he had supposed that not more than half a dozen craft were within sight, but now, between mouth and causeway, fully two dozen sailboats and launches dotted the surface.
They saw two small sailboats at a distance, and a little steamer puffing northward, but nothing of the Water Witch.
Sailboats were getting ready to take parties out, some to fish, while others sought only the pleasure of the cruise itself.
Sailboats with their mainsails down and jibs stowed, lay at anchor a little farther away.
The wind had just begun to pick up in puffs and eddies and the sailboats were scudding about like anxious swallows, when Mr. Armstrong hurried up to the dressing room where Frank was getting into his clothes.
Lacking the pressure of the gale behind it, the whitecaps soon disappeared, but in their place ran a long swell, down which the little sailboats at anchor coasted and rose again to the next, like some kind of a seabird.
Fishing steamers have replaced the old sailboats to a great extent, and they represent an enormous fishing industry.
Moreover, the merchants deliver goods to customers by means of sailboats instead of by wagons, as New York merchants do.
However, he turned to gaze at a zigzag group of sailboatstacking gracefully along the far rippled shore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailboats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
