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Meanings of sailing off in English

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Usage of sailing off in English
1
You thought we had the lady kidnapped, and was sailing off with her.
The Case and the Girl
2
It is sailing off Corfu, a shipping ministry official said.
Reuters
3
And some of them went sailing off across the yard.
The Tale of Fatty Coon
4
While you were sailing off to heaven, I was working the back alleys again.
Kafka on the Shore
5
York grimaced, removed his wide-brimmed hat, and sent it sailing off into the shadows.
Fevre Dream
6
No sailing off into the night as you did before.
Song of the Nile
7
The vessel was tracked sailing off Cyprus's north-west coast.
Reuters
8
He'd go sailing off without her for entire weekends.
Watch them die
9
The keeper played for United 292 times before sailing off on the club's greatest ever night.
The Guardian
10
If Muskwa had been alone, the cub would have gone sailing off in those murderous talons.
The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild
11
Jupiter's got the wind at your back, but that's no use if you're sailing off half-cocked.
Ebony
12
And there would have been no opportunity for her to go sailing off and commit murder.
Report for Murder
13
But only two battleships ever stayed in the dockyard, and then for a week before sailing off.
Outposts: journeys to the surviving relics of the british empire
14
When a man mounts a high-horse aeroplane and goes sailing off, dimity is the best possible ballast.
Andrew the Glad
15
They made sails out of their Cossack trousers, and, sailing off, escaped from the fastest Turkish vessels.
Taras Bulba, and Other Tales
16
There it goes, sailing off in the air with a queer little fluttering motion of its whole body.
The Insect Folk
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common