Examples of 'had sailed' in a sentence

Meaning of "had sailed"

Had sailed is the past perfect tense of the verb 'to sail.' It is typically used to indicate that someone or something had completed a journey or voyage in the past. For example, 'She had sailed around the world' means that she completed a journey around the world at some point in the past

How to use "had sailed" in a sentence

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If this ship had sailed off today.
But the vessel in which he had sailed.
No one before had sailed so far south.
I had thought that the ship had sailed.
His ship had sailed without him.
I figured the boat had sailed.
They had sailed into an ice field.
The ship had sailed.
He had sailed a turbulent sea.
It was as if we had sailed on a fast.
I found out pretty much after that boat had sailed.
His uncle had sailed away.
I found out pretty much after the boat had sailed.
I told him it had sailed the day before.
But at that time we did not know that the last ship had sailed.

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If the ship had sailed out then returned.
It was the first time the trio had sailed together.
And their warship had sailed away with an emotional salute.
It was a ship that had sailed.
I thought you two had sailed off into the jaridian sunset forever.
The ballast contained the seeds of plants from wherever the ship had sailed.
He narrated to me that he had sailed in a ship with thirty men of.
She had sailed from Bordeaux nine days before on her first cruise.
That ship had sailed.
The ship had sailed with shipyard workers still aboard working on her.
I was the only guy who had sailed with him before.
Each ship had sailed with a box containing the same set of instructions.
My father was starting to claim that he had sailed further than he actually had.
The group had sailed from the tributary into the main river.
But Cheryl was afraid the ship had sailed on that.
Her crew had sailed her out of a minefield using a crude sail built from a canvas cover.
The orders also noted that Nelson had sailed to Egypt in search of him.
Affronteur had sailed to demand of Doris why she was in the area.
His Majesty was pleased to read in the newspapers that theEndurance had sailed yesterday.
Two additional boats that had sailed for the area disappeared with trace.
An accident happened during sea trials for the new vessel which had sailed from Wirral.
Instead she had sailed to Australia as a tug.
Prior to this a number of earlier explorers had sailed the Moreton Bay area.
All of them had sailed the Pride in the schooner race before.
The crew were instructed to say the ship had sailed from Singapore if questioned.
His mother had sailed back to Australia for his birth before returning to China.
I believed that I would flown on a real airplane and had sailed on a real steamboat with mother.
Crappe had sailed on the scouting freighter Ă˜resund one month before the main fleet.
The trip did not return until after Cook had sailed on his second Pacific voyage.
Lamachus had sailed into the Pontus and anchored his ships in the river Calex.
Before joining the Titanic he had sailed on the Olympic.
They had sailed from Cork.
Columbus never realized that he had sailed to the New World.
We had sailed twice previously on the Disney Wonder.
You would think no one had sailed round the Greek islands before.

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