Example Sentences

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But as time stretched on, Moss noticed that the ship was heeling - no longer coming back to a level position when it was being thrown about in the storm.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2022

“Soon we were ‘burying the rail’ ” — heeling so far to one side that the rail of the boat was underwater.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2019

Mom: “Barry, the boat is heeling too much.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2017

It both made sense and made no sense at all, and I tried to imagine those dads, composing their notes and then calmly unbuttoning their shirts and heeling away their shoes.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014

She could have only four or five inches of freeboard left on the sides and, at the least heeling, her deck would go under from the weight of the water inside the boat.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen