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How to use clews in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word clews? Here are some examples.

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Hullo is a rectangular shaped flat wooden plank seater with its four corners fixed to the roof by means of metal clews which can swing.
High overhead, topmen scrambled to furl and unfurl sails and tend to yards and booms and spars and various clews.
Leave the head and the clews projecting slightly, and bind them together with a piece of light line.
At 2330, the vessel was hove to under the starboard clews of the lower topsails, waiting for the passing of the cold front.
Following up the clews indicated by the unnamed informer, the police found a regular arsenal of the deadly poisons and microbes in the home of a Paris engineer.
He taught us how to attach the clews to the ends of the hammock and then lash it between jack stays.
Both clews are made up entirely of volunteers, said the ship's highest-ranking enlisted man, Senior Chief Petty Officer Lawrence Naumann.
I went over and asked him to let down the clews or corners of the mainsail, which had been drawn up in order to lessen the useless flapping of the sail against the rigging.
Clews kicked off the format quietly with Educating Essex in 2011, at Passmores Academy in Harlow, which won him a Bafta.
Although his singing was of a high quality, I'm afraid Mick Clews didn't stamp his authority on the part.
After he'd moved out of their home, Clews says she made a startling discovery.
Examples from Classical Literature
We had barely finished when the chief petty officer came up and examined the clews.
Almost the only clews that we get at are to be found in the colloquies.
Mr. Clews also tells us how roads are wrecked by their boards of directors.
I roused Dr. Clews at the mearns, and gave him my father's message.
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