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Sentence Examples I had a mental picture of the surface with the sun shining, and sailing boats tacking to and fro. A scramble to the top of the mound gave a good view of merry little red-sailed dinghiess tacking this way and that. You have to be pretty marketable to sell a series simply by tacking your name to the front of it. Soon all three of us have got the hang of tacking, pulling in and letting out the sheets and steering. Near the top of the second beat, the three boats engaged in a fierce three-way tacking match near the port tack layline. This impression is created by simply tacking the history of the Urartians onto that of the Haik. Many an hour was spent tacking, jibing and splicing the main brace with the occasional capsize as well. The district was asking for the right to subcontract, and the union, by tacking the letter onto the contract, indicated its agreement. Sailing in nearly the opposite direction, that is, tacking close-hauled into this headwind, is a French ship. Not many miles away another little ship was slipping through the water, fitfully tacking against the contrary wind, seeking an easterly path. It was square-rigged on its foremasts and mainmasts, but used a lateen sail on the mizzen to help in tacking. Deran sighed and started tacking up two horses, leaving another one haltered for use as a pack animal. The wind caught the sails with a dull boom and the ship heeled about, tacking into the westerly breeze sweeping across the lake. Actually, Madison wanted to amend the text of the Articles of the Constitution, rather than tacking on a Bill of Rights and further amendments. I don't understand why she goes backwards, back and aslant, tacking to one side. The company has decided to throw viewers a few bones by tacking on a couple of extra features to this disc. Despite the weeks he spent tacking posters to walls, only 30 people turned up. There was only one other guy in the room but he appeared to be busy tacking something to the sand-coloured wall. I use these ends to sew the corners more securely by invisibly tacking them down to the coat. Hitchcock seems disinterested in the relationship, tacking it on to fulfill audience expectations. Show More Sentences The bill suggests that it will be fairer to lift the excise duty on fuel, rather than tacking the increased cost on to the registration fee. She points to the left side of the bay, where a small sailing boat is tacking past the tumble of fallen cliff. After the first morning's safety talk, we were sea-bound, and under Giles's watchful eye, were soon hitting nine knots, tacking and gybing. He took it without a word, tacking it to the bulletin board over his desk. Watching his handpicked crew in action, expertly tacking the boat, it's hard to believe Team Adventure will stand a chance against his well-funded campaign. I spent nearly a day and a half under the spinnaker, tacking back and forth, and I had never sailed at that speed solo, on this boat. But all too soon, we were tacking up for our afternoon lesson, which ended around 6 pm, after which we cooled down our horses and cleaned our saddles. She was tacking to come around on Indefatigable's starboard side. By tacking and jibing, Alinghi has twice been successful in bringing the America's Cup to Switzerland. Lastly, how can the matter of infrastructure projects be dealt with without tacking the issue of how they can be funded by changes in pricing? After tacking to the right, John McCain is back to picking fights with Republican colleagues. All three sails are on a pair of sheets at the moment and I am building a new boomed staysail because I want a self tacking boat when I am on my own. Equipped with a fathead two reef main sail, self tacking jib and 1:28 main sheet purchase system for easy boat handling. The economy did add jobs in August, tacking on 96,000 new positions from July. Designing security into systems from the beginning, instead of tacking it on at the end, would give us the security we need, while preserving the civil liberties we hold dear. As a member of its cast for almost 30 years, I must admit this feels a little like tacking pieces of Jell-O to a bulletin board. Extensions are also a good idea but this tends to be much more involved than simply converting a loft of tacking on a conservatory to the side of your house. Otherwise we recommend ripping this page from the magazine and tacking it up alongside those calendar girls who mock you from above your workbench. An army of beaters will drive the birds into the skies, tacking across the hillside, flushing the grouse out of their cover and into the air for the waiting guns. So my first act as the room's inhabitant was tacking a few posters to the walls and planting framed snapshots of my close circle of friends on the shelves. Show More Sentences The boat is equipped with a refrigerator, a freezer, and a microwave, so the women can zap their meals between jibing, tacking, and swabbing decks. An over-dimensioned roach can easily get caught in the backstay when tacking or gybing. I'm 250 miles behind as the crow flies, or much more if you consider all the tacking. What's the point of tacking on some trifling symbolic punishment to their deep anguish? Attempting to boost immigration without addressing the root problems is like fixing a home with dry rot in the foundations by tacking on more weatherboards. The foredeck is free from baby stay and inner forestay, and this makes tacking easier. But that would be silly, like tacking some ill-conceived speculation onto the end of a story about boring financial statements to juice it up a little. They feature basic pony care from catching the pony, grooming, correct tacking up and untacking. William. No palaver! tell it to the marines. What, tacking and double tacking! Come to what you want to say at once. Only four per cent of people manage to come up with the solution, which involves attaching the candle to the cardboard box and tacking the cardboard box to the corkboard. And they had. For the first time, miraculously, Oracle succeeded in outpacing Team New Zealand upwind, the latter very nearly capsizing after a furious tacking battle. With a carbon rig and a versatile sail plan including flat-top main and self tacking jib, the boat will quickly be fully powered up, but still manageable with a small crew. Millions more pilgrims have travelled by road from Istanbul and Damascus or by dhow and steamship from Singapore and Mumbai, tacking carefully around the coral outcrops of the Red Sea. Yet while his death will cast a long and emotive shadow over the current Liberal Democrat leadership contest, it's too crude to draw from him the lesson that the party succeeds simply by tacking relentlessly left. In June, he decided to hold a separate special election on October 16th for the Senate seat vacated by the death of Frank Lautenberg, rather than simply tacking that election onto the governors' election on November 5th. A special Department for fight against tacking in human beings and other types of violent crime was established within the Ministry of the Interior. Use of the tacking nozzle is also recommended when, for example, connections are to be fixed to the external surface of a piece under manufacture. A lot better in fact, as it is never easy to begin a race sailing upwind or tacking in the English Channel, where the shipping and fishing boats make this a delicate operation. The tacking nozzle must be used with V seams in order to guarantee perfect bonding of the root face zones and to avoid a notch effect at the bend. Let me re-emphasise, however, that consumer protection is best served if we consider the whole picture, as the Commissioner rightly indicated, rather than tacking together all the provisions that apply anywhere in Europe. Show More Sentences Chapter 4 identifies the traditional model for dealing with public complaints and shows how, by tacking complaints on to the discipline system, it serves to reinforce a punitive, individualistic approach to police management. Whatever your need, be it assembly, drilling, grinding, tacking, nailing, blow gun cleaning, paint spraying, chipping or tyre inflation the SILpack R offers a cost effective solution. At that point, an airway was successfully inserted and his breathing was assisted with a bag-valve mask while the medic straddled the patient on the Stokes basket, tacking behind the snowmobile. Nor do I see the case for tacking left on affirmative action. There are still no trade winds established down here and it is in a southerly breeze that Safran is having to sail by tacking upwind to make her way to Guadeloupe. But although the gap is closing, it will stay significant as they are all now on a direct course for the north of Guadeloupe and they'll have no more tacking to do. For example, riders worked on balance and stretching activities on and off the horse and also benefited from tacking, untacking and grooming. This means, naturally, that a prosecutor anxious about tacking too close to the wind will disclose a favorable piece of evidence. We had flown into Airlie Beach the night before, stocked up on provisions, and by noon were practicing tacking and jibing in the bays near Airlie Beach. The schooner ploughed on Northerly for a minute longer, before tacking again to lay herself half a mile in advance of the nearer corvette, now up on their larboard quarter. Tacking means that you turn the boat into the wind, or the bow through the eye of the wind. Tacking on vibraphones to clumsy, endlessly repetitive garage rock does nothing but emphasize the complete lack of original ideas that plagues this album. Examples from Classical Literature But it had taken a great deal of tacking and beating to keep to his course. The next morning Nan was tacking up some tarlatan at a window to keep the midges out. Then he as sedulously drilled them in tacking, veering, and other manoeuvres. This was an agreeable change after all our close-hauled tacking in the Channel. But at last I got it done, and Rowley stood up with rather a red face from tacking the sweepy, lacey thing that had come undone. But next day the wind has hauled ahead, and she has to make her way by tacking. She kept tacking to and fro in a widening compass, for she was sailing dead into the wind. See how she hangs in the wind, neither keeping on her course nor tacking. Sharp to the left on the Notting Hill side, sharper still up Silver Street, a little tacking west and south, a plunge across High Street, and presently we were home. Find more words! 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