close to the wind

How To Use close to the wind In A Sentence

• Max warned her she was sailing dangerously close to the wind and risked prosecution.
• Susan sat on a chair close to the window.
• He gripped the wheel tightly and held his face quite close to the windscreen.
• He never actually tells lies, but he often sails pretty close to the wind.
• sailing close to the wind
• This meant they could both quickly catch up to and quickly flee from square-rigged vessels when sailing close to the wind.
• 'T's wut I call bein' desput keerful, an 'sailin' pooty consid'able close to the wind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
• Now she was sitting as close to the window as possible while Jake and Mindy insisted on making goo-goo eyes at each other before starting off to the lake.
• I had my face close to the window, craning my neck to scan.
• Max warned her she was sailing dangerously close to the wind and risked prosecution.