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Example sentences for "cruise"

Lexicographically close words:
crueltie; cruelties; cruelty; cruet; cruets; cruised; cruiser; cruisers; cruises; cruisie
  1. I shall take refuge in my yacht, and try the curative effect of a cruise round the world.

  2. I took him a cruise in my yacht, and the gig in which we were landing one day was upset in some breakers.

  3. In 2001, a major new construction project will extend the pier used by cruise ships in the main harbor.

  4. Tourism is a key industry, with most tourists from the US; an increasingly large number of cruise ships visit the islands.

  5. Motor Matt's Submarine; or, The Strange Cruise of the Grampus.

  6. Motor Matt's Submarine; or, The Strange Cruise of the "Grampus.

  7. Dick Merriwell on the Deep; or, The Cruise of the Yale.

  8. As an episode, the story of the runaway cruise of the Josephine is introduced, inculcating the moral that 'the way of the transgressor is hard.

  9. The schooner was a prize lately captured by the Ranger, and Captain Lascelles had put Jack in charge of her to carry her up to Sierra Leone, while the frigate continued her cruise to the southward.

  10. After this the three midshipmen and their men returned to their ships, which sailed away on a cruise to the northward.

  11. Captain Hemming was then ordered to cruise in whatever direction the boats might go, to render assistance if necessary.

  12. The frigate and the brig were sent to cruise in different directions, and for several months did not meet.

  13. He suggested, that while the frigate stood after the felucca in one direction, he should be allowed to cruise in an opposite direction, to double the chances of falling in with her.

  14. Choosing twelve out of these, he proceeded to cruise nearer, signalling the approach of friends by a shield raised on the mast.

  15. But if a sea-battle happened to occur, he should withdraw a portion of his fleet, which when he began the intended engagement, was to cruise round that of the enemy, wheeling to and fro continually.

  16. A friend has lent me his yacht, and we will go for a cruise wherever you like--inside the Bay or outside--according to how you stand it.

  17. If the crew did their duty, and everything worked well, the squadron would proceed immediately to Brest, and the cruise need not last more than two days.

  18. On the other hand, the intellectual results of the cruise were abundantly satisfactory.

  19. With the crew of the Josephine came Mr. Fluxion, who immediately retired to the main cabin with the principal, where the further details of the cruise to Genoa were discussed.

  20. But I can't think it is anything more than a short cruise for the sake of the discipline.

  21. For an hour they discussed the events of the cruise of the Josephine up the Mediterranean; but both were satisfied that the discipline of the squadron had been triumphant.

  22. Before night the Josephine was ready for the long cruise up the Mediterranean, though none of the students on board of the ship knew that anything unusual was in progress.

  23. If I remain one day in Genoa, where my sister lives, the cruise would last twenty-five days.

  24. I'll bet you Fluxion's starboard whisker, our cruise for this season is up.

  25. You don't like him because he broke up your cruise in the Josephine.

  26. The cruise down the Rhine is given up, and we are to carry the Arbuckles to Belfast.

  27. And now began a cruise which is numbered among the most successful in the country's history.

  28. The cruise which follows is usually a pleasant one.

  29. Nowadays, when the railway and telegraph have brought all the people of the world closer together, such a cruise would be impossible.

  30. Before this change the life of the "plebe" on the summer cruise was not a bed of roses.

  31. Meanwhile the engineer division of the first class is off on a cruise to visit the various navy-yards and docks of the Atlantic coast.

  32. Stewart was, of course, aware of the orders which had been issued by the Admiralty, but with his ship in fine condition and provisioned for a long cruise he feared nothing that floated, whether one ship or two.

  33. Often the 'roller would cruise through grass tall as a man's knee.

  34. The Vings don't take prisoners unless they're at the end of a cruise and going into port.

  35. So his plan is to keep mum, buy up the island, then charter a big yacht and cruise down there casually, disguised as a tourist.

  36. He has hinted to me that he might start on some sort of a cruise soon.

  37. You have been asked," says he, "to go with us on a cruise to the west coast of Florida.

  38. Just goin' to cruise around town casual in the hopes of spottin' him on the fly, eh?

  39. If it will help the process any, I may say that I am considering the possibility of going on a cruise South with Captain Killam--for my health.

  40. But a smaller ship to cruise about inland waters and collect furs was also needed; and for this purpose the partners bought the Lady Washington, a little sloop of ninety tons.

  41. The ship (Columbia) during the cruise had collected upwards of seven hundred sea-otter skins and fifteen thousand skins of other species.

  42. The little kotches that used to cruise out from Siberian rivers no longer served.

  43. Their four years' cruise marked the close of the most heroic epoch on the Pacific coast.

  44. Then he was asked various questions as to harbours in the Turkish and Greek islands, and as he had constantly consulted the charts during his cruise in the Tigress, he was able to reply readily on all these points.

  45. It would have been too bad if, in addition to our luck in having an independent cruise on board the Tigress, we were to get an advantage over our comrades in the way of prize-money.

  46. He has sent us the report you gave him of your cruise in the brig Tigress among the Greek and Turkish islands.

  47. Two lads, Teddy Wright and Neal Emery, embark on the steam yacht Day Dream for a cruise to the tropics.

  48. The boy who figures in the tale is one who was taken from a derelict by Paul Jones shortly after this particular cruise was begun.

  49. Yet Allemand, who had escaped a few weeks later from Rochefort, was able to cruise in these very waters for over five months without being brought to book.

  50. The story of that cruise is utterly unsensational; it is one simply of calm and unremitting scientific work, almost unaccompanied by peril.

  51. The brief narrative presented here is derived principally from the lively and interesting series of letters from the pen of Lord George Campbell; from "The Cruise of H.

  52. As a result, it was then suggested that a vessel should be specially fitted out for a more important ocean voyage round the world, to occupy three or more years, and the cruise of the Challenger was then determined upon.

  53. The Challenger, in its cruise of over three years, naturally visited many oft-described ports and settlements with which we shall have nought to do.

  54. Members who are able to take advantage of the cruise in gun-boats must have attended drill regularly for three months previously.

  55. The hint runs thus: "I had a trifling difficulty, not discreditable to his character, on the previous cruise to Porto Rico.

  56. Pursuing his cruise south to the point of rendezvous, an English merchant vessel was captured, one of a convoy of six which had left Rio the evening before in charge of a man-of-war schooner.

  57. I had a trifling difficulty with him, not discreditable to his character, on the previous cruise to Porto Rico--on that account he was sought out, and tampered with.

  58. The story of the remainder of his cruise is briefly told.

  59. A fleet for home purposes, to cruise continually along her coasts, and to watch the neighboring coasts of her often enemies, was, then, a necessity of her insular position.

  60. Every crew was heroic; every cruise daring: every combat a victory, where proximate equality rendered it possible.

  61. The Commodore had missed the two great objects of his ambition--the fleet and the frigate; but the cruise was not barren either in material or moral results.

  62. Willin' to sign for the five years trial cruise if I will, are you?

  63. Al," he said slowly, "has it seemed to you that your cruise aboard this craft of ours here had been a little smoother the last year or two than it used to be afore that?

  64. He was subsequently in command of a small armed vessel employed by Government to cruise in the Bay of Fundy.

  65. Two years afterwards he was again at Port Royal and in the course of a ten days' cruise took nine prizes and destroyed four more vessels.

  66. We at length took a longer cruise than usual, and were for some time knocking about in the longitude of Plymouth, and that turbulent portion of the aqueous world--the Chops of the Channel.

  67. You must, however, come and take a cruise with us, and talk over old times.

  68. Our directions were to cruise about for three days, should the weather remain moderate, and then to rejoin the cutter off the Needles.

  69. Her commander, Lieutenant Simmons, came on board and told my uncle that he had been directed to cruise in search of the Kitty lugger, commanded by the notorious smuggler Bill Myers.

  70. At last our quarantine was concluded, the pirates were carried off to prison, and we returned on board our ship, which had come in from a cruise just in time to receive us.

  71. This day came into Harbor the bark Winona, after a cruise of three years, two months, and four days.

  72. Any case, we'll not be rid of it while the cruise is on.

  73. Joel turned another page, came to where Mark had written: "This day I returned from my first cruise with full casks in two years, seven months, fifteen days.

  74. A boys' story of a cruise with the Great Commodore in 1776.

  75. The story of a remarkable cruise with the Sloop of War "Providence" and the Frigate "Alfred.

  76. The adventures of two Yankee Middies with the first cruise of an American Squadron in 1775.

  77. If we are going on a cruise we ought to have some provisions.

  78. The instructions to these vessels were to cruise along a north and south line, eighty miles from the islands named.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aeroplane; airlift; airplane; balloon; boat; campaign; canoe; circumnavigate; coast; course; cross; crossing; cruel; cruise; drift; excursion; fare; ferry; flit; fly; glide; hop; hover; hydroplane; jaunt; journey; leg; motorboat; navigate; pass; passage; pilgrimage; ply; process; prowl; roam; roll; row; run; sail; scull; seaplane; soar; steam; steamboat; tour; traverse; trek; trip; volplane; voyage; wayfare; wing; yacht