Then when I got the oars, the stubby yawing little tub at first seemed scarce more than to hold her own.
The Wavecrest was pitching and yawing pretty badly now and before I cast a single glance around I was sure that she was already going through the inlet.
It was a job of some difficulty, although accomplished at length, the ship showing herself all the better for the operation by running easier and not staggering and yawing so much as she raced along.
At the first sign of the Mirandola yawing the galleon began to swing round by the stern, so that the two vessels came broadside on within a few moments of each other.
Only Biddle's prompt action had saved the ship from yawing and presenting her broadside to the pursuer.
The skipper took the woman and child off, and left the fishing-smack as we found her yawing about--all sail set.
We sighted a French fishing-boat yawing about abandoned.
They could not steer properly, yawing this way, yawing that; and it was impossible for them to keep up with the five and a half knots of the tug, which was then about the speed she was towing the picket-boats.
We came up after one of these deep plunges into the valleys of the ocean, and, to our alarm, saw the English ship yawing directly athwart our course, and within fifty fathoms of us.
The Dawn was plunging onward with a momentum to dash in splinters, did she strike any resisting object, and yawing herself sufficiently to render the passage hazardous.
An hour after the sailing vessels had made the port the mail-line steamer Eleusinian came yawing in, with some of her windows in bad shape, and glad to get in out of the sea.
He took a look round, and, though I cannot say that his courage went, I am bound to tell you that a kind of ferocious despair seized on him when he found the bargue yawing away from the Esperanza.
She had disabled one sporting coster who tried to guide her, and the landlord was preparing for practical remonstrance, when she sailed down upon me, yawing all the way as though she were running before a hard breeze.
It had been yawing off that compass all the way from a point to a point and a half.
A lumbering old lighter with a yawing derrick passed close aboard.
Their united strength was needed because the schooner was yawing madly every now and then when the mightier surges of the frothing sea hoisted her counter, chasing behind her like wild horses.
Every angle joint was working--yawing open and closing with dull grindings as the vessel rolled and plunged.
The road was heavy with sticky mud, and the four horses strained and labored as they pulled the huge, yawing coach through the deeper ruts.
They were sailing now not over two or three furlongs from the shore as they ran yawing along before the wind.
Yawing stubbornly, the Merrymaid pulled against the tiller so that the rough wood seemed to burn into Thomasin's flesh, so hard had she to grip it to keep the boat's head from going up into the wind.
With the breath failing in her throat, she had none left to cry for help; she could only wrestle with the tiller, which, all the weight of the yawing Merrymaid against it, seemed about to crush her.
The torpedoed ship, after yawing vaguely for a few minutes, steadied back to the convoy's course, slowing her engines till she only just retained steerage way.
In order to draw them off the shore, he stood away, but as they would not follow the Bittern out of shoal water, she again steered towards them, yawing to bring her guns to bear, while they kept up a steady fire on her.
He immediately ran down, hoisting the French ensign, and yawing a little to show it.
He said: "I do not blame you, Helen, for wishing that that old cloud over your father's name might be dissipated.
By telling me where to find Mr. Grimes," said Helen.
The big machine was literally staggering in its course as the hands on its control stick grew weaker; was yawing wildly, even as the ZX-1 had yawed after her crew had been slain by vapors they could not see.
He was fitting it on with one hand as, with the other, he hauled himself up the spider ladder into the hull of the thundering, yawing dirigible.
Touchy work, maneuvering into it, with the ZX-1 yawing as she was, and the need for haste desperate.
By yawing and towing a sail overboard, we stopped our way, until the captain thought the object had been answered, when once more, squaring away the yards, we continued our course up the Channel.
Directly afterwards the French frigate ran up on our larboard and lee quarter, and yawing rapidly, fired into us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yawing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
