RUDDER in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for RUDDER, such as:

1. Control the destiny of the rudder is the struggle.
2. A life without a purpose is a ship without a rudder.
3. He also made a mast with a yard arm, and a rudder to steer with.
4. Some tried to stop up the leaks while others tried to steady the rudder.
5. It fell just short of the ship, but was within a little of hitting the end of the rudder.

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rudder
 n.  mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion
Classic Sentence:
1  He also made a mast with a yard arm, and a rudder to steer with.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
2  Moreover, she made the wind fair and warm for him, and gladly did Ulysses spread his sail before it, while he sat and guided the raft skilfully by means of the rudder.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
3  It fell just short of the ship, but was within a little of hitting the end of the rudder.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
4  But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  With this assistant, I went down to the boat again, and we all came ashore, and brought out the oars, and rudder and boat-hook, and all else, and hauled her up for the night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
6  Another flash showed him four men clinging to the shattered mast and the rigging, while a fifth clung to the broken rudder.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
7  Porthos, yielding to the pressure of the arm of the procurator's wife, as a bark yields to the rudder, arrived at the cloister St. Magloire--a little-frequented passage, enclosed with a turnstile at each end.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
8  By the rough seas I swear, fear for myself never wrung me so sore as for thy ship, lest, the rudder lost and the pilot struck away, those gathering waves might master it.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
Example Sentence:
1  Control the destiny of the rudder is the struggle.
2  A life without a purpose is a ship without a rudder.
3  Some tried to stop up the leaks while others tried to steady the rudder.