How to Use sail through in a Sentence
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Scores of ships are waiting to sail through the strait.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
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Hundreds of cruise ships also sail through the canal each year.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2025
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Some projects sail through the approval process, while others don’t.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
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And renting a boat to sail through the harbor or a kayak is super-fast, too.
—Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2020
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Accept your fate and sail through this day with small expectations.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2025
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Bloomberg reported that Iran has asked for hefty fees from some ships that are looking to sail through the strait.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
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That means huge container ships and oil tankers routinely sail through the region.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
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Soon enough, the ships would sail through, like blood back into a resuscitated heart.
—Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper's Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
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Some people sail through development, and some people take a longer time.
—Andrew Barker, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
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For me, the come-what-may nature of our sail through this remote archipelago was just part of the fun.
—David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
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Most Antarctica cruises sail through the passage, which takes about two days each way.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
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The flying squirrel may be the archetype, and some spiders, lizards and frogs can sail through the air and come in for a soft landing.
—New York Times, 26 May 2022
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Proponents of the measure were surprised that the current version did not sail through again.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 July 2022
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About 50 oil tankers a day normally sail through the Straits of Hormuz.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
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Lil Jon will sail through Manhattan atop the Toys 'R' Us float.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
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Normally, about 130 ships per day happily sail through the middle of the strait.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
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Midnight sun cruises cross the Arctic Circle and sail through a world without night.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
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So did Conway and Everhart sail through to the next round together?
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2021
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Don’t miss the Galleon Carnival event where parades of boats and gondolas sail through the canals.
—Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
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CNTs are about a nanometer in diameter, and electrons sail through them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2024
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Hong became the third American to sail through parallel bars, and Richard was a star on high bars and on floor.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 July 2024
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There are the rare television shows that seem to sail through the various stages of production blissfully.
—Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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After seeing the ball sail through the uprights, Lloyd turned and sprinted to the UW bench area to get the axe.
—Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
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Those are only what’s observable, with many ships known to sail through with their transponders off to avoid digital detection.
—Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
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In fact, the second season seemed to sail through the various stages of production blissfully.
—Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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Wall Street is instead laying more bets that most American borrowers will sail through.
—Matt Grossman, WSJ, 12 June 2023
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Others were forced to seek shelter because of airstrikes, or were marooned on cruise ships that couldn’t sail through the Strait of Hormuz.
—Stefanie Dazio, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
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Sure, no one is able to sail through life being constantly surrounded by loving, supportive people.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Mar. 2026
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Those alternate itineraries also tend to be more expensive than those that sail through the Drake.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
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Ambani and Merchant also chartered a cruise ship for a pre-wedding sail through Europe in May.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 15 July 2024
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