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
• And renting a boat to sail through the harbor or a kayak is super-fast, too.
  — Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2020
• Fizzy pink cocktails sail through the room on golden trays.
  — oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2022
• Some projects sail through the approval process, while others don’t.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Proponents of the measure were surprised that the current version did not sail through again.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 July 2022
• So did Conway and Everhart sail through to the next round together?
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2021
• That means huge container ships and oil tankers routinely sail through the region.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
• Soon enough, the ships would sail through, like blood back into a resuscitated heart.
  — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper's Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
• Some people sail through development, and some people take a longer time.
  — Andrew Barker, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
• 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
• The choice still needed approval from the full Arts Commission, but usually the selections sail through.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Wall Street is instead laying more bets that most American borrowers will sail through.
  — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 12 June 2023
• 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
• So two decades later, when the pandemic descended on Maryland, Tyler expected to sail through it.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In fact, Raimi was able to sail through production with his artistic vision mostly unchallenged.
  — Sonaiya Kelleystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024