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vela in English:

1. sail sail


we set sails
Can you see a sail on the horizon?
Was he quick with the sail?
Sail along the coast.
The only reason why Ferdinand Magellan could claim to be the first man to sail across all of the world's meridians was because Christopher Columbus had chosen to swim.
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
He taught them how to sail ships.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
The Daito-maru is scheduled to sail at 4:00.
Yesterdays storm damaged the sail.
During the day we used to paddle a canoe, sail or go on hikes in the countryside.
That new sail is huge!
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
Last July we sailed from Malta to Cairo in a big yach
The sun finally sailed behind the clouds and didnt reappear.

English word "vela"(sail) occurs in sets:

Lezione 21 / Unit 6 / vocabulary from homework p. 160

2. sailing sailing


I started sailing last year.
Bad weather prevented them from sailing.
She was looking forward to going sailing with him.
I belong to the sailing club.
If it is fine tomorrow, I will go sailing with my friends.
Tom doesn't know much about sailing, does he?
Sailing a boat, his chief hobby, costs him most of his salary.
I would if I could, but I'm taking sailing lessons this week.
It seems, from books, that the colonizers and adventurers went sailing off to a new fine life, a new country, opportunities, and so forth.
Sailing a boat makes us happy.
I’d love to learn sailing. I’d have the freedom to travel around the world in my own boat.
Trust me. It'll be plain sailing.
I am engrossed in sailing.
On our holiday in Greece, we went sailing around the islands on a small boat.
I went sailing on a big lake near my house.

English word "vela"(sailing) occurs in sets:

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