Sentence example with the word 'tacking'

tacking

Definition n. a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together

Last update: July 21, 2015


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I was sixteen and pregnant and my mother tossed me out of the house and then I was a street smart seventeen year old mother without a pot to piss in and no options to get one then if I screw this guy I can maybe get a million dollars and feed my baby and not listen to gun shots outside my door and I been standing here at the window a long, long time, begging for a ticket to fly out of here and no one has handed me anything but shit and now this guy is holding this first class pass and all I have to do is reach out and grab it but I know I might hate myself for tacking it because this ticket clerk is kind of a jerk sometimes but an okay guy most of the time and he's nice to me and he listens to me, and he loves me and I know if I take it and fly it will kill him.   [Please select]

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"At anchor somewhere, or on the island; almost anywhere but tacking all night on the bay."   [Please select]

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In his calm tacking, in his effortless play, in his superb mastery of the furious gale, one realized that here was one of Nature's masterpieces.   [Please select]

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Therefore, still on the wing, tacking from side to side, it examines the locality.   [Please select]

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Afterwards, from sunrise until dark, they were tacking to reach the land against a strong wind and head-sea.   [Please select]

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'Ef thar war any danger of that, we could stop 'em by 'tacking 'em.   [Please select]

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She was already cutting the tacking threads with her pocket knife.   [Please select]

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All night long the steamer went on, tacking from bank to bank to avoid the shoals.   [Please select]

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It may have been tacking in this direction, and so come near enough for people to see my signal.   [Please select]

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But what fool of a skipper would run so close to the shore for the sake of tacking.   [Please select]

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Should there be grease spots, apply a mixture of beef-gall, fuller's-earth, and water enough to form a paste; put this on before tacking the carpet down.'   [Please select]

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