How To Use Abeam In A Sentence
-
So if a shuttle lands near you or sends abeam your way folks, use it!
-
Neque rursus nos aliter discere poteramus, nisi Magistrum nostrum videntes, et per auditum nostrum vocem ejus percipientes, uti imitatores quidem operum, factores autem sermonum ejus facti, communionem habeamus cum ipso
Christologia
-
once we're abeam Cherbourg, we'll alter for Land's End on the south-western tip of England, then head north-west for Ireland.
CORMORANT
-
As we drew closer in and "sheered" the Chameleon, so as to bring the light abeam, I directed our signal officer to make the regular signal.
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
-
Fags were most easily located when the search heading was abeam to the wind direction, so that the pennant presented the greatest visible surface area.
-
Stone turned to port after he came abeam of the number-six can and idled down the privately maintained channel.
CORMORANT
-
And so, although the light-winged craft that was following the ship sailed three feet to her two; yet she had such a long start, and the breeze was so fair and dead aft -- which was all in favour of a square-rigged vessel and against a fore-and-after, that sails best with the wind abeam -- that the felucca was still some five miles off when day broke and the chief mate first discovered her.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
-
Because the ram was the only ship-smashing weapon available, fleets fought in line abeam so as to present as many rams to the enemy as possible.
-
That student flew wide abeam and long in the groove.
-
It's when the breeze comes from the side, and slightly abaft of abeam, that a vessel can achieve its fastest point of sail.
-
Megabeam has also secured a non-exclusive deal to provide its service at 15 major UK railway stations.
-
Nam etsi frumenti aut farris penè nihil vulgò habeamus, nec sal, gulæ irritamentum, ad cibaria condienda, omnibus suppetit: docuit tamen Deus opt.max. etiam nostros homines rationem tractandi et conseruandi, quæ ad vitam sustentandam spectant, vt appareat, Deum in alendis Islandis non esse ad panem vel salem alligatum.
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
-
Sailboats move fastest with the wind coming from "abeam" or the side.
Fore, right!
-
In the course of half an hour she worked off till the wind was directly abeam.
CHAPTER XLIII
-
Then, when she had paid off till the wind was abeam, by reversing the wheel hard across to the opposite hard-over I could take advantage of her momentum away from the wind and work her off squarely before it.
CHAPTER XLVII
-
Just before coming abeam the runway threshold I began a continuous finals turn, Spitfire style.
-
Nam etsi frumenti aut farris pen� nihil vulg� habeamus, nec sal, gul� irritamentum, ad cibaria condienda, omnibus suppetit: docuit tamen Deus opt.max. etiam nostros homines rationem tractandi et conseruandi, qu� ad vitam sustentandam spectant, vt appareat, Deum in alendis Islandis non esse ad panem vel salem alligatum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
-
He instructed an exhausted, unqualified third mate to turn the ship when it came abeam of Busby Island.
-
It's when the breeze comes from the side, and slightly abaft of abeam, that a vessel can achieve its fastest point of sail.
-
We were heading S . S . W . , and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea.
-
Up swept the _Nonsuch_ into the wind, with all her sails ashiver in the brisk breeze, and, watching carefully, George gave the order to fire at the exact moment when the Spanish ship was square abeam.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
-
In Christi autem obedientia quod nostra collocatur justitia inde est, quod nobis illi incorporatis, ac si nostra esset, accepta ea fertur: ut eâ ipsâ etiam nos justi habeamur.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
-
He reported abeam, and tower cleared him to land on runway 24 left.
-
The wind being abeam, was what had saved the men crowded aft.
THE SEED OF McCOY
-
For unknown reasons, as it crossed the bar, the vessel turned northwest bringing it abeam of the breaking waves.
-
Haud aequom facit qui quod didicit id dediscit. an periclitamini quid animi habeam? sed quid huc vos revortimini tam cito? an te auspicium commoratum est an tempestas continet 690 qui non abiisti ad legiones, ita uti dudum dixeras?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
-
To prepare for our return, the DDG was to remain 150 miles abeam of West Palm Beach to fuel us.
-
I heard him tell tower we were abeam and landing.
-
Be consistent - drop notches of flaps in the same place on every landing, e.g., first notch when you're downwind abeam, second on base, last notch on final.
-
Nam etsi frumenti aut farris penè nihil vulgò habeamus, nec sal, gulæ irritamentum, ad cibaria condienda, omnibus suppetit: docuit tamen Deus opt.max. etiam nostros homines rationem tractandi et conseruandi, quæ ad vitam sustentandam spectant, vt appareat, Deum in alendis Islandis non esse ad panem vel salem alligatum.
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
-
It was merely a stiff breeze, and the Uncle Toby, filling away under her storm canvas till the wind was abeam, sloshed along at a four-knot gait.
A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
-
After burning down fuel, we flew by the ship, close abeam.
-
Just before coming abeam the runway threshold I began a continuous finals turn, Spitfire style.
-
As this issue of TIME closed, our editorial staff discovered it had some lovely reasons for an impromptu party: three orchid-decked researchers ablush and abeam with plans for marriage.
-
_ "Castigo te non quod odio habeam, sed quod_ AMEM.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
-
The ship won't point into the wind, you have to have the wind astern or at least abeam.
-
Both vessels were now abeam Tancarville, Le Havre less than twenty minutes away.
CORMORANT
-
The ship yawed as the heavy wave struck abeam.
-
The airplane impacted a swampy area inverted, abeam of the departure end of Runway 20 and about 120 south of the runway.
-
Fakarava, and we'll go in through the passage full-tilt, the wind abeam, and every sail drawing.
THE SEED OF McCOY
-
Nam etsi frumenti aut farris pen� nihil vulg� habeamus, nec sal, gul� irritamentum, ad cibaria condienda, omnibus suppetit: docuit tamen Deus opt.max. etiam nostros homines rationem tractandi et conseruandi, qu� ad vitam sustentandam spectant, vt appareat, Deum in alendis Islandis non esse ad panem vel salem alligatum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
-
We were already under way, all sails set and drawing, and the sheets being slacked off for a wind abeam, as the last boat lifted clear of the water and swung in the tackles.
Chapter 25
-
Most angles were measured when animals were passing abeam of the plane.