Example Sentences

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I will yaw the ship, and as your guns come to bear, slap it right into his bows.

From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael

Raise a few feet of that all but invisible plate three-eighths of an inch and she will yaw five miles to port or starboard ere she is under control again.

From Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard