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How To Use clew In A Sentence

• According to noted plant ecologist Andre Clewell, this vegetative mix is normally found on the coast - more than 15 miles away.
• Max MacLeod made the trip on the Jean de la Lune and found the experience bracing: Let go buntlines and clews!
• Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off. CHAPTER XXIX
• It will follow the Pennine Cycleway along the canal from Nelson to Greenberfield locks, Barnoldswick, and back.
• The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
• The sail was clewed up, and in a few seconds I was clinging to the sliding gunter royal mast, and gathering in the canvas, while the captain was denouncing me for a lubber, for not accomplishing impossibilities. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
• The only thing in the nature of a clew was a moccasin track, and that led to young McCrae, whom, for Sheila's sake, he did not wish to involve. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters
• A 440-metre extension of the pedestrian path and cycleway along Ewingsdale Road between Northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star
• The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas. CHAPTER XXXIII
• Perhaps it is right here that we catch the clew to their futility, put our hands on the pulse of their unpractical inability to put an end to violence by the perpetration of deeds of violence. Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards