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How to pronounce “sailing”
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Pronunciation guide for sailing
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sailing with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Feeling Stuck on Climate Change? Here’s What To Do
they're like ships sailing past each other in the night
- Definition summary
- present participle and gerund of sail
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce sailing
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they're like ships sailing past each other in the night
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sailing”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of sail
- [Adjective]
- Travelling by ship.
- [Noun]
- Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
- Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
- the time of departure from a port
- (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
Practice Nearby Words
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Similar Sounds
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