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    Use "mast" in a sentence

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    1. forward, grabs hold of John and the mast


    2. There were some yachts with more than one mast with crews of six sitting around and puttering at maintenance


    3. I couldn't see them behind the mast I was bound to, only hear them, the crunching and tearing and their wet snorts and sputters


    4. Nlara still clung to the mainsail rings high up the mast


    5. There were a couple kegs aboard, owned by Yarnay on mast six, and she was able to mooch a cup or two a day out of them, but that was what Luray used to drink with lunch


    6. Yarnay was noticing a lot more about her than her thirst for yaag, so was Tuida, the other guy on mast six


    7. She had gone out in her cotton nightrobe, now discarded in a sodden heap at the base of the mast


    8. "I wouldn't want to be touching the mast


    9. The girls from third mast gave a nod as she went over the rail, indicating they knew of no sheelunge to warn them of


    10. Desa's heart stopped when Tiytha came over to Luray and said 'your turn', and left them to tend the mast for awhile

    11. Luray, the sad, blond, storytelling woman from mast five responded but was close by and came to stand with her at the rail


    12. I'm going to try and see something from the mast before Wen Island but we'll probably hold steady til then


    13. " There was a pause, then Luray asked, "So how's things on your mast?"


    14. Seconds after that he was scrambling down the mast with his funny looking duffle pack


    15. The roof of that cabin was a deck, and there was another small cabin on top of it that reached to the lowest of the great horizontal booms on the middle mast


    16. They went up a flight of stairs just aft of the middle mast and into a wide hallway with a nice kitchen in the middle, between two large tables, a few lounges with bookcases and candlelanterns nearby


    17. There came a time in late Morningday in week Zawmathii, their third week out of Shempala when she was on the topdeck because of duty on the middle mast


    18. If she kept this up she would be tending her mast with a buzz and she didn't think that was something Byia would approve of


    19. "I wasn't planning on standing your mast for you either, even if the wind is dying down


    20. The youngster you meant to guide on this trip to the city is manning his mast as one of my ablest crew

    21. "She thought we should stand her mast for her because she's hung over from today's party


    22. Then she was lead to a little boat with a single square sail on a single mast


    23. The sergeant sat in front of the tiller, back against the mast, and gabbed with the captain most of the day


    24. She spent the day, like all the other days at sea, sitting in front of the mast with her back against it


    25. She hung her head and started to crawl back to her position by the mast, but Patass’ arm went around her waist and drew her up to sit on his lap


    26. Oh it had a mast and rudder, but half the time they were rowing it, and at the oars was the only spot on board wide enough for two to sit abreast


    27. In this dingy, leaning against the mast meant her feet were over the bow


    28. Attached to the keel pocket they fitted a mast step and installed the necessary hardware around the gunwales to secure the intended mast


    29. She had taken the mast completely down and was disassembling it when she began the explanation of the state of man's being and of the structure of man's machine, that it was a microcosm of the great world and how it was supposed to function


    30. The mast was turned over to them when the ship was just reaching out into the open lake

    31. “We’ve come over to the rail next to the winch, I’ve made eye contact with the deck marshal and he knows that this winch, and therefore mast, is manned


    32. ” Flavio pointed toward a rusty mast


    33. So he told his men to tie him to the mast and to not let him go for any reason


    34. We've got a smaller boat now, and we share a mast


    35. "I think they're 'up to' about half mast if you ask me," Klowa said


    36. Her gait was regal, her bearing so straight, she might have been a ship’s mast


    37. Among the countless things they’d talked about while clinging to a mast from Father’s ship, she remembered Andrastus describing how to coax milk


    38. Instead of acorn mast, she gave them


    39. Father sent Andrastus up our mast to have a look


    40. I scarcely had the heart to hang onto the mast

    41. And bids them lash him to the mast


    42. As far back as she could remember, the ship’s mast had been white


    43. They’d been clinging to the mast for days, ever since it broke loose in the storm


    44. her from the twisted sail, laid her over the mast at its crosstree, and pressed the brine out of her lungs


    45. So Andrastus used the last of his strength to untie a piece of sail cloth still clinging to the mast


    46. She told them to set it forward of the mast as they ran before the wind


    47. With the strong gale before, this extra canvas might have snapped the mast, but now she needed to catch all the wind she could


    48. As soon as Miklos came down from the mast, Nerissa had him fill more buckets


    49. This mast, once shorn of its sails and ropes, I then cut into eight “logs” of equal The Perfect Prank


    50. positioned high on a platform near the top of the main mast














































    1. Saw six masted speed schooner that could make the trip in half the time yet when I inquired at the Departure windows, I was told that all shipping east had been curtailed due to the war


    1. The stumps of three masts, chopped off two feet above the deck, indicated a flooding ship that had been forced to sacrifice its masting


    2. Its masting was visible for an instant, but it couldn't have seen the Nautilusbecause we were lying too low in the water


    3. And yet in the midst of this turmoil, the Nautilus lived up to that saying of an expert engineer: "A well–constructed hull can defy any sea!" This submersible was no resisting rock that waves could demolish; it was a steel spindle, obediently in motion, without rigging or masting, and able to brave their fury with impunity


    1. Herndon could see it between the masts


    2. You can't take this barge out there, you need a vessel that's all one hull and no more than three masts


    3. Two masts had gone and four of the crew before we rolled over the first time


    4. When Alan and Desa had their masts shifted, the sails were now taking the ends of the ship in opposite directions


    5. The café is situated on one side of a small square and, from where I am sitting, I can see the masts of boats bobbing at the quay just down the street; the tang of salt in the air is tantalising


    6. It had five masts but they were much larger, and the ship itself was much larger


    7. It's nests were just tiny lookout platforms high in the masts


    8. Instead it had a large cabin which looked like the packet they came in on, turned sideways over the deck between the third and fourth masts


    9. Shift change was now complete, all masts were covered and the captains were on the outdoor bridge for the final approach


    10. The three of them had the first three masts

    11. Its three black masts dominated the bay of Dorini like primed Harpoon missiles locked onto a delicate conservation sanctuary


    12. The first squall of wind carried away two carbon fibre masts of The Kaliantiakos and left just the foremast standing


    13. The bridge is over three hundred feet above the water, well above the tallest masts on Canyon Lake, at the level of the highest streets in the canyonwall


    14. Its two masts each had lateen sails


    15. What’s more, our ships had sturdy masts and sails


    16. Those of us who still were able climbed the masts to peer across the waves


    17. Of this kind are all naval stores, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, pig and bar iron, copper ore, hides and skins, pot and pearl ashes


    18. The prohibition of exporting from the colonies to any other country but Great Britain, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, naturally tended to lower the price of timber in the colonies, and consequently to increase the expense of clearing their lands, the principal obstacle to their


    19. Under this denomination were comprehended timber fit for masts, yards, and bowsprits; hemp, tar, pitch, and turpentine


    20. and, to me, it was an imposing forest of masts and ropes

    21. The three mines, the ore refinery and the solar farms relied on radio masts for communication


    22. Rather than just send audio transmissions via these masts, the electronics boffins of the colony had set up a wide area wireless data network to allow all the different geographical locations to remain in constant contact, allowing both voice communication and data flow between them, even video when the need arose


    23. masts of his vessels so that the enemy would think they were


    24. They had masts, sails, oars, a compass, lanterns, and a hatchet and small chest for pistols and cutlasses


    25. As soon as she reached clear water, her masts were cut so she could not sail away, and


    26. Only a few rotted masts reaching skyward as a last desperate plea for help showed where these once seaworthy vessels had been above the black waters


    27. Birds were flying around in circles and the trees that littered the local park were beginning to sway back and forth like masts in the wind


    28. Raul pulled the car into the empty lot to park at the foot of the fishermen’s dock and sat studying the forest of booms and masts


    29. There were six masts, two that could be removed in bad weather


    30. They had the V-shaped hull and long keel and used the heavy ballast of the fuchuan but had the masts and rigging of the shachuan

    31. There were nine staggered masts which held twelve square silk sails instead of the bamboo sails of the Choson ships on which I had sailed


    32. This was dangerous, as the ships were imbalanced while the masts were being raised, and a big wave hitting a ship's side then could topple it


    33. He turned and pointed to a large pirate ship with three tall masts, anchored about a half mile off shore


    34. Mainmast: second mast from the bow of the ship that has two or more masts, or the single mast of a ship which has only one mast


    35. Rigging: general term for ropes, chains and gear supporting masts, yards, booms, and sails


    36. Wooden sailing schooners with two or more masts and 40- to 80-ton displacements (carrying capacities) built for fur companies appeared on the Great Lakes in the 1770s


    37. talking to me about the masts when we should be talking to


    38. together to find a way of using these masts


    39. ” He shouted and presently, a tall sturdy man with a weathered face appeared on the forward part of the schooner between the four masts


    40. She should have been posed against a background of sea-clouds, painted masts and wheeling gulls

    41. I could hear men’s voices above and below me, the creaking of the ship’s timbers, the masts stretching as the canvas flapped in the wind


    42. I could see the masts of several just beyond the backside of the buildings


    43. Carrying a heavy head loaded with pain, frustration and bitterness, Travis walked through the hotel and out onto the promenade overlooking the harbour and the small boats, their masts bobbing from the slight chop in the water


    44. With sloping masts and dipping prow,


    45. They passed several obsolete Cloud Ships which were moored up alongside some of the abandoned wharfs, their masts and hulls battered from the many tens of thousands of nautical miles covered during their years in service


    46. “Ever lost both masts in a storm and had to jury-rig one out of a felled young hooktree?”


    47. wires, thrilling against their ships' metal masts, combined with the mournful


    48. They loved each other, there on her comfortable bed, bathed in sunlight, surrounded by the sounds of soft music and the tinkles of the halyards hitting the masts of the gently rocking yachts, moored in the bay outside


    49. Dad zoomed in on the boat, and we could make out the name (Miss Sheila) and he further zoomed in on an older man moving about between the ship's twin masts


    50. As soon as all of her bombs were released, Ingrid turned hard to the right but stayed low, performing a half turn and lining up on what she had assessed by studying her reconnaissance photos to be the base operations building, which was topped by a number of radio masts











































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    Synonyms for "mast"

    mast post pillar prop pole support upright

    "mast" definitions

    a vertical spar for supporting sails


    nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground


    nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine


    any sturdy upright pole