MAST in a Sentence
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43 example sentences for MAST, such as:
1. All the flags were at half mast.
2. He also made a mast with a yard arm, and a rudder to steer with.
3. Flags were at half mast everywhere on the day of the president's funeral.
4. We discerned the figure of a man clinging to the mast of the wrecked ship.
5. The candidate nailed his colours to the mast on the question of civil rights.
2. He also made a mast with a yard arm, and a rudder to steer with.
3. Flags were at half mast everywhere on the day of the president's funeral.
4. We discerned the figure of a man clinging to the mast of the wrecked ship.
5. The candidate nailed his colours to the mast on the question of civil rights.
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Meanings and Examples of MAST
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mast
n. any sturdy upright pole
n. nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 They set the mast in its socket in the cross plank, raised it, and made it fast with the forestays; then they hoisted their white sails aloft with ropes of twisted ox hide.
2 He also made a mast with a yard arm, and a rudder to steer with.
3 He let go the helm, and the force of the hurricane was so great that it broke the mast half way up, and both sail and yard went over into the sea.
4 It was so huge that we could only compare it to the mast of a twenty-oared merchant vessel of large burden, and able to venture out into open sea.
5 '"'You will want no guide,' she answered; 'raise your mast, set your white sails, sit quite still, and the North Wind will blow you there of itself.'
6 Then I stopped the ears of all my men, and they bound me hands and feet to the mast as I stood upright on the cross piece; but they went on rowing themselves.
7 Jove, however, sent the ship's mast within my reach, which saved my life, for I clung to it, and drifted before the fury of the gale.
8 They set the mast in its socket in the cross plank, raised it and made it fast with the forestays, and they hoisted their white sails with sheets of twisted ox hide.
9 In the mean time Telemachus and his crew were nearing land, so they loosed the sails, took down the mast, and rowed the ship into the harbour.
10 Sinking below the bird and mast, a drowned corpse glanced through the green water; a fair arm was the only limb clearly visible, whence the bracelet had been washed or torn.
11 Your flag must be nailed to the mast, for obviously you'd run it down if it wasn't.
12 No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
13 Aye, he was dismasted off Japan," said the old Gay-Head Indian once; "but like his dismasted craft, he shipped another mast without coming home for it.
14 I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fish a bit of old-fashioned beef in the forecastle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
15 Being fixed on the summit of the mast, you ascend into it through a little trap-hatch in the bottom.
Example Sentence:
1 The candidate nailed his colours to the mast on the question of civil rights.
2 We discerned the figure of a man clinging to the mast of the wrecked ship.
3 All the flags were at half mast.
4 Flags were at half mast everywhere on the day of the president's funeral.
5 His heroic tug at a flag-decked mast will come back to haunt him in unexpected ways later in the story.