HELM in a Sentence

Learn HELM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

25 example sentences for HELM, such as:

1. The best man in the ship must take the helm.
2. The boat seemed very slow to answer to any movement of the helm.
3. There was springing up a choppy wind, and I could not leave the helm.
4. Dantes told them that all hands might turn in, and he would take the helm.
5. And obeying his own order, he dashed the helm down before the helmsman could handle the spokes.

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 Meanings and Examples of HELM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
helm
 n.  steering gear of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel; position of leadership or control; director
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  You see," said Dantes, quitting the helm, "I shall be of some use to you, at least during the voyage.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
2  "Larboard your helm," cried the captain to the steersman.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
3  Dantes told them that all hands might turn in, and he would take the helm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
4  Dantes ordered the helmsman to put down his helm, in order to leave La Pianosa to starboard, as he knew that he should shorten his course by two or three knots.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
5  But their wonder was soon changed to admiration at seeing the perfect skill with which Dantes handled the helm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
6  I gave him the helm, and descended; there was already three feet of water.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
7  The captain gave his orders, the helm was put up, and the boat was soon sailing in the direction of the island.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
8  Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
9  The best man in the ship must take the helm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
10  Steelkilt calculated his time, and found that his next trick at the helm would come round at two o'clock, in the morning of the third day from that in which he had been betrayed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
11  And obeying his own order, he dashed the helm down before the helmsman could handle the spokes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
12  So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
13  But suddenly reined back by some counter thought, he hurried towards the helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
14  I let him take the helm, while the rest began thorough search, all keeping abreast, with lanterns: we left no corner unsearched.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  There was springing up a choppy wind, and I could not leave the helm.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
2  The boat seemed very slow to answer to any movement of the helm.
3  The helm is made of two very large oars, firmly bound to a kind of bracket in front of the rear platform, and worked by a long curved stick.
4  British-born media maven and woman about town Tina Brown, 64, moved to New York in the early 1980s to helm Vanity Fair.