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Example sentences for "abeam"

Lexicographically close words:
abduction; abductions; abductor; abductors; abducts; abear; abeawt; abed; abeen; abeout
  1. From the invisible and now noisy airship, for her engines were making a terrific din, a powerful missile dropped fifty yards abeam of the submarine, and burst with a loud report.

  2. Twenty minutes later the merchant-cruiser dropped a plugged shell a hundred yards abeam of the fugitive.

  3. South West Head was abeam then and Steve half-heartedly offered to run to shelter.

  4. In silence the Adventurer drew nearer and nearer to the latter, put it abeam and then swung to starboard.

  5. We pull still further out in the wake of the ship, and heave up again; something ripples here abeam of us.

  6. Ninety miles farther, or a half hour’s flight, ought to put Montigan Light twelve miles abeam north of us, if we are on our course.

  7. The town of Derby had been passed and Roy had just cautioned the pilot that Middleton lay twenty-five miles ahead with Hartford ten miles abeam to the north.

  8. Plum Light eight miles abeam and Thatcher’s Island Light off Cape Ann,” called back the observer, checking the time.

  9. The Arklow Light five miles abeam to port,” cried Ned a few minutes later.

  10. But, when we pick up the two lighthouses on Thatcher’s Island off Cape Ann they ought to lie ten miles abeam to the south.

  11. Then the West McQuoddy Light appeared four and a half miles abeam to the south.

  12. Not one of these islands was directly in the airship’s course, all of them showing either abeam to port or starboard and frequently only to be located in the distance by their lighthouse towers or their high, rocky bluffs.

  13. At dawn we saw them, about two miles abeam of us, pulling slowly in towards Pentecost.

  14. Well, pull abeam or us to windward, but don't come alongside just yet.

  15. They're fine, weatherly craft, and with the wind abeam she ought to skip over the bar like greased lightning.

  16. She carries six tubes at least," whispered Dick; "two on each side abeam and two in the bows.

  17. The effect of this attention on the part of the skipper of the Skylark was to lessen the distance between her and the Sea Foam; they were abeam of each other, with the Phantom in the same line.

  18. The two yachts went off abeam of each other, and for half a mile neither gained a hair upon the other.

  19. When the object or wind is at some position between abeam and ahead.

  20. Any object is said to be abeam that bears at right angles to the line of the keel; and an imaginary line drawn at right angles across the keel, equidistant from the bow and stern, divides the yacht into two parts.

  21. The wind in devilish playfulness would here tear off a shred of canvas, there a yard, and there a mast or a tiller, till a rudderless craft, caught abeam by a mountain of greenish water, would seem surely to be swallowed up.

  22. The Mayflower had been caught abeam by a huge breaker, and was being turned end over end.

  23. The gentle swell that had been roiling her slightly from abeam she now caught full under the bow, and she began to pitch, setting the foam aboil.

  24. It is getting late, and we must now be nearly or quite abeam of the place where they wish to land, which is the marina grande of Sorrento.

  25. Full speed for a turn or two brings the launch abeam of a huge oil-tanker that, sharp to the tick of Greenwich Mean Time, already has her Convoy Distinguishing Flags hoisted and the windlass panting white steam to raise anchor.

  26. Our only peer, a large Leyland liner, has opened out abeam of us and the whirl of black smoke at his funnel-tip shows that he is prepared to make and keep the pace.

  27. On they came and they were abeam at exactly noon.

  28. You got out just abeam of Cape San Isidro, with its flashing white light, and you found yourself in the midst of rugged scenery.

  29. She got well inside the harbor and was almost abeam of Duprat Point when a set of flags fluttered to the signal yards.

  30. The searchlights on the ships were thrown abeam so that for most of the time it was comparatively easy to tell where your immediate neighbor was.

  31. When it was nearly abeam of the brig he gave his orders, and Wasub hurried off to the main deck.

  32. A swishing undulation tossed the boat on high followed by another and still another; and then the boat with the breeze abeam glided through still water, laying over at a steady angle.

  33. He stretched his arm straight out, pointing abeam for a time, then his arm fell slowly.

  34. As the two vessels lay exactly abeam of each other, with square yards, it was not easy to judge of the sparring of the stranger, except by means of his masts.

  35. The latter made frequent gestures for me to turn the ship towards the coast, for by this time she had the wind abeam again, and was once more running in a straight line.

  36. Half an hour later she grew into a frigate, but when she came abeam she showed three tiers of ports, being a ninety.

  37. At length we were abeam of this melancholy place, while the sun seemed to make a show of its white prison camp, at a distance of twelve or thirteen miles.

  38. The night elapsed, we came abeam of the Isle of Wight, which showed but indistinctly, though the day was cold and steady.

  39. XXXI Short seas running and a squally wind abeam made the light ship jerk and roll.

  40. As the sound of the engines died away, it seemed to start swelling again, as another machine appeared a mile abeam of them, and following the first.

  41. The cruiser heeled a little, and the smoke dots swung from abeam to nearly ahead as she turned, and he lost sight of them behind the shield of the next gun.

  42. The bleak rock of Lanaii loomed abeam to windward for several hours on the night of the 24th, and morning showed the dim blur of Maui's great crater, Haleakala, blotting out the eastern sky.

  43. For the next three or four hours heavy squalls were encountered, but midnight showed a clear sky, with the opaque mass of Maui, looming darkly, abeam to starboard.

  44. An hour later, with Coco Head abeam and Diamond Head bearing N.

  45. The wind, which we had carried on our port quarter since daybreak, was brought up abeam as we altered our course and headed into the passage.

  46. As we brought its tall lighthouse abeam the beach and reef of Waikiki, with rows of white hotels and bungalows, and the odd looking crater of the Punchbowl tilted above Honolulu in the background, began to open up beyond.

  47. No answer he made to their welcome, Till abeam Saint Philip bore, Then, oh, but he sent them a greeting In his broadsides' steady roar!

  48. With the wind abeam and blowing hard, her tall sides and towering castles were like sails that could not be reefed, a resisting surface that complicated all manoeuvres.

  49. It took long experience of the sea to discover that one could fix one's sail at an oblique angle with the mid-line of the ship, and play off rudder against sail to lay a course with the wind on the quarter or even abeam and not dead astern.

  50. At length the leading English ship was abeam of the rearmost of De Grasse's fleet.

  51. A moment after the ram was abeam of the "Congress," and fired her starboard battery of four guns into her at deadly close range.

  52. Jill's book fell down with a crash, and she leapt to her feet, abeam with anticipation.

  53. So that in smooth water you will be as safe in a blow with the wind abeam as you are when sailing close to it and luffing up into the puffs.

  54. After rounding the buoy the wind became abeam and freshened for a short time, but died away again in the Narrows.

  55. More particularly applied to a wind abeam or quartering.

  56. If she falls off too rapidly while swinging your head yards, so as to bring the wind abeam or abaft, 'Vast bracing!

  57. There, was a clear space abeam of us landward, of about half an acre in extent, on which was built a solitary Indian hut close to the water's edge, with a small canoe drawn up close to the door.

  58. At this moment, to my dismay, the object we were chasing shortened, gradually fell abeam of us, and finally disappeared.


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    Other words:
    abreast; along; beside