How to Use sail through in a Sentence
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After seeing the ball sail through the uprights, Lloyd turned and sprinted to the UW bench area to get the axe.
—Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
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And renting a boat to sail through the harbor or a kayak is super-fast, too.
—Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2020
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Fizzy pink cocktails sail through the room on golden trays.
—oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2022
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Some projects sail through the approval process, while others don’t.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
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The flying squirrel may be the archetype, and some spiders, lizards and frogs can sail through the air and come in for a soft landing.
—New York Times, 26 May 2022
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For me, the come-what-may nature of our sail through this remote archipelago was just part of the fun.
—David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
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Two Iranian warships pass through the Suez Canal, the first such ships to sail through the canal since the 1979 revolution.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 21 June 2021
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Proponents of the measure were surprised that the current version did not sail through again.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 July 2022
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So did Conway and Everhart sail through to the next round together?
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2021
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That means huge container ships and oil tankers routinely sail through the region.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
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Soon enough, the ships would sail through, like blood back into a resuscitated heart.
—Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper's Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
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Some people sail through development, and some people take a longer time.
—Andrew Barker, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
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In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, there has been talk of dismantling a historic bridge that dates back to 1878 so that Jeff Bezos’ new superyacht can sail through.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
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The choice still needed approval from the full Arts Commission, but usually the selections sail through.
—Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2020
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While the islands have been declared a Unesco world heritage site since the 70s, Chinese fishing vessels sail through every year.
—Fox News, 9 Aug. 2020
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Even with a narrowed field and the court’s majority not to be altered, there’s no guarantee a nominee will sail through the Senate.
—Jessica Gresko, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022
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The approval is expected to sail through these last steps with no problem given data that the vaccine is safe and highly effective for this age group.
—oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2021
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Wall Street is instead laying more bets that most American borrowers will sail through.
—Matt Grossman, WSJ, 12 June 2023
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This time around the legislation is likely to sail through, with the opposition drummed out of the legislature and much less heed paid to public opinion.
—Wenxin Fan, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2021
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So two decades later, when the pandemic descended on Maryland, Tyler expected to sail through it.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2022
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But in practice, these gatekeepers are often too zealous, slowing the passage of ions they are meant to let sail through, which saps device performance.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 26 Apr. 2023
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Britain’s first weeks of doing business outside of the EU have been mixed, as goods from large companies mainly sail through ports but many small businesses struggle with the new post-Brexit rules.
—Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
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Most of the changes are expected to sail through the approval process, which includes the White House releasing the final version and publication in the Federal Register.
—Matthew Brown and Ellen Knickmeyer, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2020
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In fact, Raimi was able to sail through production with his artistic vision mostly unchallenged.
—Sonaiya Kelleystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
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Still others have taken what might be the most dangerous journey of them all, setting sail through the Caribbean after taking off from an island famous in its own right.
—Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
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The Silver Endeavour was built to PC6 polar class specifications, which means the ship can push and comfortably sail through say, one meter of first-year ice, whereas many ships would have to turn around in those kinds of conditions.
—Rachel King, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2022
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To explore these storied waters, Viking Cruises offers voyages that stop in Malta, with excursions that allow guests to sail through and swim at various spots around Comino.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2022
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Decisions by both Democratic and Republican administrations over the past 15 years have allowed most big mergers to sail through.
—Marcy Gordon, ajc, 18 Jan. 2022
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Stripe, which developed a rapid, mobile payment system that has become ubiquitous during the pandemic, is a company that appears tailor built to sail through the global disruption.
—Matt Ott, Star Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
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Radio waves sail through the galactic plane unimpeded, but they're obscured by the veil's second layer—the scattering screen, a turbulent patch of space where density variations in the interstellar medium knock radio waves slightly off course.
—Seth Fletcher, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2022
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