Example Sentences

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After the storm passed, they were sighted drifting mastless on the Bay and were towed home by an obliging neighbor.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Now, slender and curved thou glidest through space like a mastless galley; and then, amid the stars, thou art like a shepherd keeping his flock.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

The ship of state lurched along through the mingled storms, mastless, rudderless, pilotless, priestless, and everybody wondered which would live the longer, the ship or the storm.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

But the next moment there was a crash and a cry, and we were a mastless wreck, drifting helplessly.

From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

About the hour of noon a mastless hull is seen in the distance.

From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)