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  1. sail faster or better than
    They outsailed the Roman fleet

How To Use outsail In A Sentence

  • We soon perceived that she could outsail our brig and if the wind held would escape. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
  • These, with the exception of one ship, all outsailed them and got safe into The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Having proven herself as a fast and seaworthy vessel, Fame was able to outsail and capture vessels many times her size.
  • Though Ranger “far outsailed” Hussar, Gurley reported, he was able to lose the American ship by making short tacks and sailing into shallow shoal water. John Paul Jones
  • But you can tell he is relishing the idea of beating the odds once again, of working his magic to outsail the most determined big-money assault the Cup has ever seen.
  • When the chimes of the campanili had dimmed to a faint cadence, like some unuttered rhythm of thought, as the distance grew between the outsailing fleet and all that pageantry of Venice, two faces stood forth like visions from the bewildering pictures of the morning and dwelt with The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus
  • Before long, he had outsailed all but the fifty-gun ship, when he espied ahead of him the entire English Channel fleet, including twenty-eight ships of the line several of which were three-deckers, and a number of frigates, sloops of war, and cutters, extending in a line southward for about nine miles from the Isle of Wight. Angel in the Whirlwind
  • “It is a losing race,” he said; “no ship can outsail death.” Mark Twain: A Biography
  • To begin with, service on board a privateer was more carefree and democratic, safer since a privateer was generally “so heavily sparred,” writes one historian, “that she could outsail a more powerful vessel”, and more lucrative. Angel in the Whirlwind
  • Fast as the Reindeer could sail, the junk outsailed her; and to avoid running her down I hauled a little closer on the wind. YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF
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