How To Use gybe In A Sentence
- With a foul bottom we're only making 5 knots and I can't turn quickly enough, so we do a flying gybe, break a spreader on the main, almost throw the guests overboard, lose some cushions, douse sails, and tuck into Lameshur Bay, St. John.
- Fortunately, the jib only gybed, while the fore-topsail slatted a bit against the mast; and all the other sails remaining full and drawing, a slight shift of the helm sufficed to put the ship on her proper course. The Island Treasure
- Starboard gybe is obviously safer than port, and clear air is vital.
- “Sir Bernard seemed to think I might have purposely gybed the yacht; is that what you think?” The Short Forever
- You'll gybe in a squall when there isn't a motor boat to pick you up, or you'll get a pleurisy when I'm not there, or you'll crash your car where labourers don't come. Movie Night
- When the breeze picked up to 35 kts we dropped the spinnaker, gybed, set the headsail and started heading back inshore to catch the cold front moving in from the south-west.
- Many of his days have been passed since then in explaining how the thing happened; of these explanations it will be sufficient to say that they were all different, and none satisfactory: and the gross fact remains that the main boom gybed, carried away the tackle, broke the mainmast some three feet above the deck and whipped it over-board. The Wrecker
- It's not racist when your best interests gybe with the interests of the candidate that happens to look like you." ... unless you're a white Republican living in the South ... Election Central Morning Roundup
- The jib or projecting arm of a crane probably derives from gibbet, and gibe and gybe are often written jibe.
- When the breeze picked up to 35 kts we dropped the spinnaker, gybed, set the headsail and started heading back inshore to catch the cold front moving in from the south-west.
