How To Use Sailcloth In A Sentence
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Since we cannot wash Towels, we have lined his Cot with sailcloth which is now Black with Blood.
The Terror
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The floating wooden docks and ships, the tackle and cargo and tall mast swathed in furled sailcloth, together created a smell and feel as exciting as sunshine and promise itself.
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Above the ground-floor windows a stretch of sailcloth fell away from the façade.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Constructed of fine sailcloth, the sails range from four-meter rectangles for beginners, eight meter for all around use and a large 11-meter sail for use in the lightest wind conditions.
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Also, check your main reef lines to prevent chafe to the sailcloth that may be pinched between the line and the boom.
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Dacron sails have also largely replaced canvas sailcloth.
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There are stories of ships stuck fast in the Doldrums, drifting idly through day after hot, sunny day, leaving their crews nothing to do but lounge under deck shelters constructed from pieces of sailcloth.
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The Falcon Tandem has a tighter sail, heavier sailcloth, larger control bar, new hardware and control bar fittings with 1.25 inch downtubes and a stiffer airframe.
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Dacron sails have also largely replaced canvas sailcloth.
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Most of the earliest papers survive very well because they were made from intrinsically pure materials: rags derived from linen and cotton, old hemp ropes, and sailcloth.
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Crew, this cover is handmade in San Francisco out of sailcloth and linen using traditional bookbinding methods and has a contrasting spine to emulate the look of a proper hardcover.
The iPad Gets Bookish
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We made little houses from reams of sailcloth and we took turns keeping the fire lest wild animals should want to desecrate the body.
Flower boat
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Sailcloth is a very strong, heavy canvas or duck made in plain weave.
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None of my clothes fit and I had to have dungarees made out of sailcloth.
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The door was opened by a great swarthy bear of a man in a blue jacket and trousers made of sailcloth.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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New for 2003 is a sailcloth jacket with a heavy-weather hidden hood and storm-flap covered pockets made with a comfortable, wind- and water-resistant cotton-nylon blend.
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Flaming sections bubbled and sizzled into the depths, and blazing sailcloth fluttered into the waves.
End of Time
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In the plane, she saw the blue sailcloth tacked down over something beside her, but didn't have much curiosity about it.
Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
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Her gnarled fingers plunged a needle in and out of a large piece of thick sailcloth.
The Storyteller Han Sook « A Fly in Amber
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Made of 70% cotton / 30% nylon oxford sailcloth with a 100% cotton poplin body lining.
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Look for strong fabrics with a tight weave such as sailcloth or canvas.
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All descriptions of linen, except the "oatcake" and "sailcloth," can be embroidered in the hand.
Handbook of Embroidery
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The trade went in both directions: there was already a surplus of cordage and sailcloth that was traded on to Constantinople while there was a booming import-export business to Riga.
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Most of them have good suits and bizdev-guy blue sailcloth shirts.
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Blainey suggested that bases were established at both Sydney and Norfolk Island in 1788 because New Zealand flax and Norfolk Island pine could provide ropes, sailcloth, and masts for the British navy.
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The company's new software allows Owen to quickly take 3D measurements and then transfer the information on to computers before cutting any sailcloth.
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Nelson's ships sailed into action with sailcloth mostly coming from Dundee with Baxter's stamps all over it.
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The two older ones were staining pieces of sailcloth with coal-dust.
THE MAIN CAGES
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A similar fate befell the Vulcan Senior with cotton seersucker, cotton sailcloth, and needlecord across the ribs.
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A hang glider has an aluminium frame which supports the sailcloth and uses internal battens in the wing to define the aerofoil shape.
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Jamaica supplied hammocks (an Arawak invention) and cotton cloth to Cuba and Haiti, and the Spaniards themselves had sailcloth made in Jamaica.
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Their wings cut the air with the heavy slap of sailcloth snapping in the wind.
Crossed
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The floor in the corridor creaked as Mafalda disappeared in a sound of unfurling sailcloth.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The latter pretended to be at work, and occasionally the second lieutenant "jawed" at him for his clumsiness in lacing the sailcloth.
On The Blockade
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I’m ohing and ahing over the colors Asparagus and Sailcloth.
Yearn Worthy Yarn: Sublime
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Sailcloth is a very strong, heavy canvas or duck made in plain weave.
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The cotton sailcloth sails are kept taut with a band attaching to the aft of each boat.
