Base verb
Phrasal verbs with sail
The verb sail combines with 3 particles to form everyday phrasal verbs. Each particle steers the meaning in its own direction — here they are with clear definitions and examples, so you can see the whole family at once.
3 phrasal verbs · 3 meanings
sail away
1 sense- Depart by ship
sail by
1 sense- Move past gracefully or apparently without effort
sail through
1 sense- Pass with apparent ease
Practice the sail family in Sink In
Sink In drills every sense of sail with spaced repetition — recognition, particle cloze, and meaning recall — so the whole family sticks instead of blurring together.