rhumb

How To Use rhumb In A Sentence

• The ‘rhumb’ lines that criss-cross the map are designed to aid compass bearings, allowing navigators to sail reasonably accurate courses.
• Throughout the room, neon signs flash to announce the upcoming dance style: fox trot, triple swing, mambo, cha cha, tango, waltz, rock 'n' roll and rhumba.
• The waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba, samba and cha cha.
• The Forester did a quick steel-crunching rhumba motion, the air bag engulfed Harry, and then the car settled. VAPOR TRAIL
• The ‘rhumb’ lines that criss-cross the map are designed to aid compass bearings, allowing navigators to sail reasonably accurate courses.
• Mercator also produced the first globe to have rhumb lines (1541), based on his observation that a ship sailing towards the same point of the compass would follow a curve called a loxodrome (also called a rhumb line or spherical helix). Mercator, Gerardus
• The foxtrot is still danced every night of the week in hundreds of modern sequence dance clubs around the country, along with the waltz, quickstep, tango, rhumba, cha cha, jive, mambo, salsa, saunter, blues, swing and so on.
• The workouts here each feature one Latin dance style -- cha-cha, salsa, merengue, samba or rhumba. Do a little dance: Exercise DVDs make their moves
• The ‘rhumb’ lines that criss-cross the map are designed to aid compass bearings, allowing navigators to sail reasonably accurate courses.
• Wesley appraised Ted's thick lips as they vibrated, like two fat, pink molluscs performing a shifty rhumba. BEHINDLINGS