Sentence Examples

1. To accomplish the great desideratum of ærial navigation, it was very generally supposed that some exceedingly complicated application must be made of some unusually profound principle in dynamics.
2. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years and my father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
3. However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.
4. Though she was not an expert in The Ways, she knew the requirements for navigation in the tunnels below the earth.
5. But he, being a man well experienced in the navigation of those seas, bid us all prepare against a storm, which accordingly happened on the day following for a southern wind, called the southern monsoon, began to set in.
6. I mean its extreme porousness, considered independently by the worm-eaten condition which is a consequence of navigation in these seas, and apart from the rottenness attendant upon age.
7. But between work details, Lord Sopwith was willing to teach me navigation.
8. He muttered to himself, in a low broken tone, some words of a language which I could not understand, and groped in a corner among a pile of singular-looking instruments, and decayed charts of navigation.
9. Hawke even noticed my sudden interest in navigation and offered a couple tips, most helpfully teaching me how to tell our direction from the position of the sun.
10. All his cars had custom satellite navigation systems, run-flat tyres, bullet-proof glass, automatic fire extinguishers, and explosion-resistant fuel tanks.