Example Sentences

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Then he looked back, and to his great joy he perceived that the Lillian had gone off in a wild direction and was yawing all over the pond.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

She was yawing about erratically, now this way, now that.

From Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)

The ship was yawing, though, and that saved us.

From Dan Merrithew by McFall, J. V.

The Bucentaur, unable to resist the storm owing to its flat bottom, was yawing from side to side.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

She was yawing about most frightfully, sheering first to port and then to starboard in a manner which seemed every moment to threaten that she would broach-to.

From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Collingwood, Harry