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free reaching

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noun

Nautical.
  1. sailing on a free reach.


Example Sentences

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Still, they are widely used because they are free, reaching an estimated 6 million kids at 80 percent of the country's schools.

From Reuters

It will allow individuals and small businesses to post for free, reaching millions of Kenyan internet users who search online for goods, services and employment opportunities.

From Forbes

In three minutes it was gone from sight, truly free, reaching up to where no man-made thing had ever touched.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as curtly, the U.S. apologized and Flight 253A was set free, reaching Japan with a planeload of grubby, bearded troopers bound for Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gills are free, reaching the stem, at first ventricose, then linear, brownish-black.

From Project Gutenberg