1.   She turns round and a white sheet flaps, a white sail sails, a white wraith passes silently in front of her eyes.

2.   The white sails billow with the breezes they catch.

3.   High above, the huge white sails billowed and filled as we sailed out of legendary Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.

4.   Joern Utzon, the Danish architect, saw shimmering white sails in his vision of the Sydney Opera House.

5.   Just as a light breeze bellied the white sails floating up the nearby Hudson, blasts of freon-treated air puffed the many net tulle spinnakers indoors.

6.   Peace lily will bloom soon, sending up white sails that wave above a shiny sea of dark green foliage.

7.   With its red walls and white sails pricked out against a marine background, this painting almost makes up for a summer of missed shore dinners.

8.   With its large white sails, the Lettie G. Howard stood near the Rose, the square-rigged ship based at Captains Cove.

9.   The podium on which the pontiff will beatify the soul of Mother Mary MacKillop has white canopied sails and rests on garbage bins full of sand.