right tack
see on the right tack.
Words Nearby right tack
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How to use right tack in a sentence
We're on the right tack for the Southern Ocean; but the storm-center is overtaking us faster than we can drift away from it.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea | Morgan RobertsonShe thought she had detected a gleam of interest in his face, and felt that she was on the right tack.
Audrey Craven | May SinclairDoes seem as if hed hit the right tack at last, and I cant help believing hes going to hold out, in spite of myself.
Maybee's Stepping Stones | Archie FellAnd this time he is on the right tack; it is on ships that the fate of the British world-empire will depend.
In the World War | Count Ottokar CzerninBut instantly I wondered if we were taking the right tack for Fraser's eyes grew red with fury.
The Floating Island of Madness | Jason Kirby
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