Example Sentences

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The jib came around and pulled taut, and after a few clockwise spins to tighten with my winch, we were tacking toward our destination.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

I could tell the tide was moving out because we were tacking slowly south toward Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and the Battery.

From Time Magazine Archive

While we were tacking the hide on the smokehouse wall, I asked Papa if he had noticed any wind blowing that evening.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

“Who? Oh, hello, Gomez,” Miss Trixie said feebly and drifted off toward the ladies’ room as if she were tacking into a gale.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

"I'll arrange it," and she rushed forward so that the maids who were tacking up her skirt could not move fast enough and a piece of gauze was torn off.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf