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by sail

by sail prepositional phrase: via a sailboat or sailing ship.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Via a sailboat or sailing ship.
    • It took many weeks to cross the Atlantic by sail.

Questions about by sail

What does by sail mean?
By sail means via a sailboat or sailing ship.
What part of speech is by sail?
By sail is a prepositional phrase.

Words near by sail in the dictionary

  1. by return mail
  2. by return of post
  3. by right
  4. by right of
  5. by rights
  6. by sail
  7. by sight
  8. by some distance
  9. by starts and leaps
  10. by steam
  11. by the book

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