They only sailed close to the battle and fired a few shots.

I sail close to the breeze the gods would handle.

I could see that a body could sail pretty close to the wind, but he couldn't go in the wind's eye.

He'd been sailing close to the wind for years and everything was just about to blow up in his face.

The man Oates is sailing very close to the wind, if you ask me.

What we wanted to know was the way in which the News Corporation publisher sailed close to the wind.

Yours truly, I decide, is sailing very close to the wind!

They try to find some unique selling difference, and that can make you sail close to the wind.

Why must I always sail so close to the wind?

It's as though we sail close to the shores of Hell itself!